"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."
"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money."
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Source: Yussuf Islam, Formerly Cat Stevens, Expresses Support For Rushdie Death Sentence. The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.
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