From “The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity” by Carey Wallace
Songwriters as diverse as Brian Wilson, Carole King, Burt Bacharach, and Lamont Dozier all name God as the source of their inspiration, along with Jimmy Webb, who says, “I believe that He’s the author of all this stuff,” and Marvin Gaye, who told Smokey Robinson that his classic album What’s Going On “wasn’t done by me, Smoke. It was done by God.” Robinsons himself described his own songwriting as a gift from God, and Aretha Franklin called her singing “the gift that God gave me.”