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.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

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

If you want to be free be free

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.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

Be awesome! Be the cause of someone's smile.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

If I can make it, you can make it.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

Working as an editor was like being a professional reader, and the better I became at reading the better I became at writing.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.