I think the origins of music have probably to do with magic and transcendence as well.

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

I do understand the perspective of die-hard fans who complain that we don't play the same as the record, but at the same time I think fans are getting an amazing deal.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

Sometimes language is not enough.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

I am very sensitive to music, so I can quite easily allow myself to access that space in which I am completely taken over. And you can get quite a reaction out of the crowd when you do that.

I think where you play is important.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

I am not scared of making mistakes.

when you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light.

You can’t lead people to where you’ve not been yourself. When you all get stranded, you need the knowledge of someone who knows the way!

Can you be grateful for everything? No. But in every moment.

Sometimes I wake up and think I wish id never told the world my story but I know good comes from it

[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians...bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm.

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language

It's not as bad as it sounds.

Trust is established by working around horses in an utterly predictable manner.

He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.