Cat Stevens Quotes

If I laugh just a little bit Maybe I can forget the chance That I didn’t have to know you And live in peace, in peace

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

Baby, I love you But if you wanna leave, take good care I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware <p> Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world It's hard to get by just upon a smile Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world I'll always remember you like a child

And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, “I love you”

I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties ‘avec le bourgeois’ / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

I love everything So don't it make you feel sad 'cause I'll drink to you, my baby I'll think to that, I'll think to that

I built my house from barley rice Green pepper walls and water ice – And everything emptying into White

I don’t want to work away Doing just what they all say

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die?
Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act — perhaps, yes.

Everything i do is for the pleasure of Allah.

And if I ever lose my hands,
Lose my power, lose my land.
Oh, if I ever lose my hands,
Ooh, I won't have to work no more.<p>And if I ever lose my eyes,
If my colors all run dry.
Yes, if I ever lose my eyes,
Ooh, I won't have to cry no more.<p>Yes, I'm bein' followed by a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.
Leapin' and hoppin' on a moon shadow,
Moon shadow, moon shadow.

Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry? Will you tell us when to live; will you tell us when to die? I know we've come a long way, We're changing day to day, But tell me, where do the children play?

I love, I love, I’m ready to love — yes

Art was what I originally started out to do and music came second at first. I had a year at art college but I left because it was too much like school. I give all my paintings away to people I like.