Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

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.

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'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.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

I used to think that your calling was about doing something good in this world. Now I understand it’s about becoming someone good—and letting that goodness impact the world around you.

Help those who need it, not who want it.

Whenever we have something that we are good at--something we care about--that experience and passion fundamentally change the nature of our first impressions.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended.

The antidote for fear of failure is not success but small doses of failure.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.