The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for.
The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

