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 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.

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.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

Where there is commerce there is peace.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.

I am a romantic, I admit it.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

I didn't love school.

Against classical philosophy: thinking about eternity or the immensity of the universe does not lessen my unhappiness.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something.