They have hijacked my religion. — Cat Stevens

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything. — Cat Stevens

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. — Cat Stevens

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion. — Cat Stevens

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. — Cat Stevens

Music is part of God’s universe. — Cat Stevens

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go. — Cat Stevens

Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. — Cat Stevens

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I’ve done it all and there’s a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again. — Cat Stevens

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things. — Cat Stevens

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. — Cat Stevens

Will you carry the words of love with you? — Cat Stevens

Love heats my blood, blood spins my head, and my head falls in love. — Cat Stevens

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony. — Cat Stevens

Because I don’t play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally. — Cat Stevens

Now I’m not making love to anyone’s wishes, Only for that light I see ‘Cause when I’m dead and lowered low in my grave, That’s gonna be the only thing that’s left of me. — Cat Stevens

If I make a mark in time, I can’t say the mark is mine. — Cat Stevens

Miles from nowhere. Guess I’ll take my time. — Cat Stevens

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There’s so much left to know, and I’m on the road to find out. — Cat Stevens

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light. — Cat Stevens

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

I’m a little bit out of it, I suppose; I’m more of the golden oldie type. — Cat Stevens

Communal well–being is central to human life. — Cat Stevens

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back. — Cat Stevens

I enjoy life. I think I’ll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing. — Cat Stevens

Do radioactive cats have eighteen half–lives? — Steven Wright

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. — Cat Stevens

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. — Cat Stevens

Not only did the terrorists hijack planes and destroy life, but they also hijacked the peaceful religion of Islam and split the brother and sisterhood of mankind. — Cat Stevens

There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony. — Cat Stevens

Man is created to be God’s deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. — Cat Stevens

I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it’s going to come. — Cat Stevens

Ooh baby, baby, it’s a wild world, it’s hard just to get by upon a smile. — Cat Stevens

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. — Cat Stevens

Now I’ve been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can’t we live in bliss? — Cat Stevens

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. — Cat Stevens