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You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.

Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.

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

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.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

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

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the o­nly answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.

If you want to be free, be free, because there's a million things to be.

I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.

Take your time, think a lot,_x000D__x000D_Why, think of everything you've got._x000D__x000D_For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not._x000D__x000D_From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen._x000D__x000D_Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away._x000D__x000D_I know I have to go.

I listen to the wind, _x000D_to the wind of my soul _x000D_Where I end up, well, I think _x000D_only God really knows.