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.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

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

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.