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

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

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

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

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

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

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

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now.

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

The highly motivated people in society are the ones causing all the trouble. It's not the lazy unmotivated folks sitting in front of a TV eating potato chips who bother anyone.

When the heart submits, then Jesus reigns. When Jesus reigns, there is rest.

I say we haven't ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

I feel like the biggest failure of humans is miscommunication. We can't communicate with each other-we can fight, we can kill, we can do those things well.

You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would.

Everyone has their own weaknesses, for me, I believe it is my speed. I need to train more for that in order to be faster.