It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.