I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

I have a daughter, she's twenty years old.

I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand.

I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.

In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat.

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

In dream consciousness... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.