I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

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

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

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

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.

These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

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

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

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

Dirt is only matter in the wrong place.

I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write.

Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.

Most people that commit to a life of celibacy werent leaving that much on the table in the first place.

I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is outside the body, I cannot measure that. If you're talking about soul as human nature, the rank of spectrum of behaviors and reactions that we know humans produce under certain circumstances, that is measurable.

We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.'

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact, it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath, there is a hidden theme.

The best quality tea must have the creases like the leather boots of Tartar horsemen, curl like the dewlap of a mighty bullock, unfold like a mist rising out of a ravine, gleam like a lake touched by a zephyr, and be wet and soft like earth newly swept by rain.

Our parents were musicians.

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two!

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

Obviously, I want it to be legally downloaded, and I myself have spent a fortune on iTunes because, for me, that's the easiest way to get music.

Daylight follows a dark night.

The mayoral mentality is incredibly valuable. I don't want to lose that.

I'm a free-market economist from years and years back, and I've never veered from that.

Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.