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"I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life."
"Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there"
"I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, "Yeah, I've got to do more," for kids, particularly."
"Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?"
"Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall."
"You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs."
"You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not."
"If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine."
"After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity."
"Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony."
"The harm done is often difficult to repair."
"Communal well-being is central to human life."
"I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before."
"I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom."
"I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that God is three, I was puzzled even more but could not argue. I believed it, simply because I had to have respect for the faith of my parents."
"A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train."
"Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context."
"Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind."
"Life is a maze of doors and they all open from the side you're on. Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may, you're going to wind up where you started from."
"All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent. I think the theme of the album probably was just that it was our first record. ... Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing."