Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
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.
I am confident that in the end common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached which gives me a freedom I never had before.
In a World where people are surrounded by darkness ignorance and fear it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light and the last great Messenger born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
I became very famous as a teenager and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life so I wanted to live larger than life and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
Moderation is part of faith so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam.
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.
I looked at some of the statues of Jesus they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents.
I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence destruction and terrorism.
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
Salman Rushdie indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law the sentence for that is actually death.