Yusuf Islam Quotations

The whole thing is totally ridiculous. Everybody knows who I am, you know, I'm no secret figure. Everybody knows my campaigning for charity, for peace. And there's got to be a whole lot of explanations. Hopefully there will be that.

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

I was quite domineering... There was a moment where the cameraman almost stuck the camera up my nose, and I got very upset and uptight.

We had this instrument sitting around in the house again, and it was very difficult for me not to pick it up. I was just glad I could remember the chords.

In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything.

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

I've... used a very conservative approach. You only hear my own voice, a slight choral accompaniment and drums. Let's say that's the safest option according to certain Islamic schools of thought. I've made minimal use of musical instruments, and in some schools of thought in Islam musical instruments are disapproved of.

We are still busy releasing this CD and organizing its distribution in the parts of the world where it hasn't been circulated. I've already started on the second project.