I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

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.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

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.