When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.
Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.