“Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel”

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.

Hatred doesn’t just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts, it’s just accepted. And in Western culture it’s just not.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession – I can’t really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn’t exist in every culture.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you’re talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.