Quotes from Cat Stevens

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

It's hard to get by just upon a smile.

I'm a mirror glass for the Muslims as well as the Western world, which looks at me in a slightly different way, but they are looking in the same mirror.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

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.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Communal well-being is central to human life.

All things can be forgiven if we can progress.

I enjoy life. I think I'll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing.

I'm looking for a hard-headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed

Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it.

Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there

If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can still enjoy the melody of the music. If, however, a person reads a book and misses the meaning of its metaphors, this will be extremely disheartening for both the reader as well as the author.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

Miles from nowhere. Guess I'll take my time.

I think kids relate to me because I have some ability to remain a little bit naive. Even during interviews. Mostly during interviews.

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

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.

One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.

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.