Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

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

Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from.

That there's no link between Islam and Christianity and Judaism. There wouldn't be Islam if there wasn't Christianity or Judaism, because it's all one long line of revelation. Seeing it from that point of view it makes you ask yourself why Muslims sometimes separate themselves from that large family that leads to Abraham and, even before that, to Adam. The only answer is that we're conditioned to do it by thinking, Hey, I do things better than he does.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.