“I just feel happy to be in America, like I said, it’s the most beautiful country in the world.”

Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life.

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him… does that mean we’re not democratic?

What you’re saying is that ‘I, the superior elite, will take care of you.’ Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can’t be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

Put me into a crusader’s armor, a cardinal’s vestments. Let me feel the pygmy’s heartbeat, the queen’s breast, the torturer’s pleasure, the Nile’s taste, or the nomad’s thirst.

I really like The Cars. They’re just so over the top and super pop, but I don’t feel guilty. I’m proud of all the music I listen to.

I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.

It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.

I understand that, because there are so many musicians, you have to make artists into brands, but I sometimes feel like I have to be some kind of non-human icon in order for people to listen to my music.