I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record..

Things won't start your life for you. I'm learning that. You have have to start your life for yourself..

Whoever makes sujood to Allah properly, will never make sujood to the duniya..

A song is a meaningful thing..

I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them..

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay the fundamental marvel t….

you will always love, and you will always be loved.

I don't wanna keep playing the same song over and over again. It's just thinking about "what's going to be the coolest thing to play on this particul….

Mostly, isolation allows me to go through a period where I really concentrate and get in a flow. Sometimes the whole process can be daunting, and whe….

I write in the studio, I don't sit around with a piano or a guitar and write songs. I get satisfaction out of that because I can finish the song real….

I would always write lyrics and songs on the piano..

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to w….

The song is based on a lot of observation and a lot of speculation. But in sort of a pointed way its kind of about Madonna...I think it was a particu….

It's hard being the guy that brings in a song, because you're very, you know, it can be something that you get too sensitive about..

My song titles have different reasons for the mistakes. "Don't You Evah," that's just the way that I've always said it, and I just thought it was fun….

I was quite surprised when I started looking at the lyrics for 'Punk Prayer'. Given its brutal style, I did not expect the lyrics to be so well writt….

Often the simplest song is the hardest to write..

We Gonna Win' is a song of triumph, It represents my personal belief that with hard work, talent and dedication, everything is possible. It's a one o….

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it..

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs..

I have nothing to declare except my genuis..