"Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence."

"I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass."

"I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff."

"I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'"

"Fear will knock at every door; only those with resolved hearts refuse to let it enter. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier."

"He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise."

"And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them."