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

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

Even when we win, we lose, Lyss thought.

The right way to start your day...Guard well within yourself with benevolence, Hateful people will always try to provoke you.

The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.

You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.

Sit there and look pretty.

Scientist alone is true poet he gives us the moon he promises the stars he'll make us a new universe if it comes to that.

When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.