There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good food... It's just that much more secure. And may God keep it safe.

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.

We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.

Being able to hear someone say, 'I found an incredible job on The Muse, ' or 'It gave me courage to make a career change, ' that's the motivating factor.

We live on a restless planet in a violent universe.

Cornering perfectly is like bringing a woman to climax.

Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.

Start believing the Word of God over our feelings. The truth always overrides our feelings. Find the truth in the scriptures.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

It is always exciting to open the door and go out into the garden for the first time on any day.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.