I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

People say that love is easy, but love spares nothing and no-one.

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

Nusrat is one of the greatest singers of our time. When his singing takes off, his voice embodies soulfulness and sprituality like no other.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

I don't dream of a ceiling fan which is always here spinning above my head. I dream of a cool weather

If we were in a room full of art, I would stare at her.

Laire, get back here! You do not drink before we meet with our mortal enemy.

I don't want to be throwing the football on the front yard when I'm 75. I mean, I'm not opposed to men doing that. But I don't think it's gonna work for me.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.