Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

It's hard to get by just upon a smile.

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

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