Quotes By Cat Stevens

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.

Music is part of God's universe.

It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.

Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions of human beings.

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.

In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience, and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.

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.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.

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.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times.