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.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.

It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.

I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when I'm by myself, or like when I was a little kid.

There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the 'Foreigner Suite,' it is!