I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version of folk, if you like.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

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.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.