The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.
Everything good proceeds from enthusiasm.
I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.
The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.