In a revealing interview, singer/actor Rick Springfield talked to The Hollywood Reporter about his first novel "Magnificent Vibration'" in which he based the story around a fictional character's conversation with God.

The New York Daily News calls it a blend of "science fiction," calling the main character Horatio, a "down-on-his-luck sex-obsessed video editor grappling with a nasty divorce, who finds a telephone number for God in a stolen self-help book."

The 64-year-old '80s pop star described to THR his journey and the process of writing the book.  

"The first thing I did was write that first conversation between [the main character] Bobby and God," he described. "I started with the idea of God talking to me -- like, if I had a connection to God, if I could actually talk to him or her, what would I say?"

"Wouldn't it be great if there were someone or something that could give us a pat on the head and tell us we're doing good?" he said. "It always bothered me, with the religion that I was raised in -- the Church of England... It was very frustrating to me, because I wanted a connection."

Springfield believes the success of the movies God's Not Dead and Heaven is for Real come from a "spiritual searching" that many are currently doing. I think ideas are out there in the ether, and writers are open to them and they come based on what they're open to and what they're looking for," he explained.

Although the singer has a very open opinion on God, he told the publication, "My concept of God goes through changes daily. There is still a part of me who is very Christian."

Springfield said he believes in the concept of God punishing. "I was raised thinking God's a punishing God, and he'll kick your *** if you do wrong things, and if you do good things, then you gotta turn around and say, 'Thank you, Father, appreciate it.'" The singer then went into detail on his own personal journey with God and explained that as a preteen he was "very angry at God."

"I knew there was something wrong with the way I'd been taught," he stated. "As I got older I learned from the Beatles about these other, eastern philosophies."

He said that he practices eastern philosophies of meditation but claimed, "I'm still very Christian; I have crosses all over my house. And it's a weird obsession with me too, the iconography," he confessed. "I have depression too, and the meditation has really helped with that."

His philosophy is that stuff just happens. "It's not all God saying, 'Give this 6-year-old kid cancer,' and 'This football player, give him a billion of dollars -- and you better thank me when you get your reward,'" he said.

Springfield went on to mock those who thank God when they win awards and things of that matter. "That's so bizarre to me, whenever somebody gets up and thanks God for all the great stuff that they've got," he said "It's so odd to me, because is there someone going, 'Well, God's giving him all this, but I'm getting ****** here down here in poverty land.'"

Although the book is about a conversation with God it is highly proactive and contains explicit adult content. The singer is expecting criticisms from Christians but did not want to sacrifice his creative freedom.

"I'm probably going to get a lot of flack from Christians and Catholics and Mormons -- and everybody -- from this," he said, "But you just have to write what you're going to write... With this one, it's fiction, so I can just throw it out there."

Springfield published the novel on Tuesday and although it is a fictional piece, The Daily News reported there are autobiographical touches in the book.