Our brains are so powerful and so is language, but langua...

Our brains are so powerful and so is language, but language is like the bricks, and religion and philosophy end up becoming like the mortar that hold those bricks together. There are so many gaps in the logic of this language and how it can explain our plight, our existence, our successes, and that's where religion seems to fit in. Language is too incomplete and religion fills in. Why do I feel bad when this happens? Well, religion comes in and says you don't have to think about it. You can go to work the next day or do whatever, you don't have to think about it. It fills in the cracks of what we can't speak about, what we can't say.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. I think records and music are more appropriate and more respectful of the human soul than the churches are. And more respectful of the needs of humans to communicate with the aspects of themselves that are neglected by language. I don't think people think about God so much as they think about themselves and how they're going to get through life.

Will Oldham, from Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy