People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.

The musical instuments may be western but my voice never wavers away from my own ragas. it is good to make experiments and I do a lot of them but my thoughts always round the centre and that centre is the tradition of my elders and it is classical music...

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.

People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.