"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money."

"Music is part of God's universe."

"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."

"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."

"God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies."

"Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man."

"It is a timeless truth that in the quiet sanctuary of self-reflection, the soul finds its rhythm — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."