I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.

It would be my intention that everybody should have love, and there are a lot of people in the world.

I think God gave me an inner dictionary. If you play the right music that my heart loves, lyrics just come right to me.

I can't imagine a God who would ever need to intercede in the daily travails of my life.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

I'm very proud to be of Muslim faith.