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.

I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue.

The painter, sculptor, writer, and musician are protected by law. So are inventors. But the chef has absolutely no redress for plagiarism on his work; on the contrary, the more the latter is liked and appreciated, the more will people clamour for his recipes.

A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.

Money flows into the US, and inflates US assets, and allows the US to have a monstrous trade deficit. That means we are consuming more than we are producing.

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

That's such a great thing about New York, after growing up in a place and being there for twenty plus years, there's still a whole island to discover.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

I thought twenty was pretty scary, like, not being able to call myself a teenager anymore, and feeling like an adult - that kind of made me nervous.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

In the past, I have been an immigration reformer, not a restrictionist.

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

Nostalgia for dead tyrants and the longing for heroes are unhealthy, and they can result in the deification of a Saddam as easily as a Havel or Mandela.

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.