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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.

The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

You do manage a somewhat religious attitude toward your art. It is a calling rather than a job.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Work to me is a sacred thing.

Also, I am very religious. It gave me peace of mind all my career.

I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.