In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natura...
CAT STEVENS Peace Train is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hea...
CAT STEVENS It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I wa...
CAT STEVENS In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audien...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited...
CAT STEVENS I looked at some of the statues of Jesus; they were just stones with no life. When they said that Go...
CAT STEVENS I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and rea...
CAT STEVENS Communal well-being is central to human life.
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways...
CAT STEVENS Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of ...
CAT STEVENS I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far rem...
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million way...
CAT STEVENS Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought...
CAT STEVENS I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my ...
CAT STEVENS I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was bor...
CAT STEVENS It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to s...
CAT STEVENS In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...
CAT STEVENS People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here...
CAT STEVENS When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space...
CAT STEVENS Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentime...
CAT STEVENS Maybe some people may have thought or imagined that Islam drains all creativity. In fact, when you l...
CAT STEVENS There are certain comforts of living here in Dubai, the comforts of so many mosques and so much good...
CAT STEVENS In music, you can use metaphors with ease - if a person doesn't understand the parable, they can...
CAT STEVENS Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ...
CAT STEVENS I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big st...
CAT STEVENS The tears fall, they're so easy to wipe off onto my sleeve, but how do I erase the stain from my hea...
CAT STEVENS A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
CAT STEVENS There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you li...
CAT STEVENS I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and...
CAT STEVENS Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by reve...
CAT STEVENS The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But th...
CAT STEVENS The theatre is a world in itself. The possibility for creating experiences that move people is incre...
CAT STEVENS I used Coldplay's mixer, Michael H. Brauer, on 'Roadsinger'; he's brilliant. He won ...
CAT STEVENS The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in...
CAT STEVENS There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
CAT STEVENS 'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously throu...
CAT STEVENS The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period withou...
CAT STEVENS Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spri...
CAT STEVENS I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohib...
CAT STEVENS It's an Islamic principle that you must follow the law of the land where you reside.
CAT STEVENS From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
CAT STEVENS Then one day I found my head when I wasn't even trying.
CAT STEVENS All things can be forgiven if we can progress.
CAT STEVENS The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
CAT STEVENS This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun ...
CAT STEVENS To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.
CAT STEVENS If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ...
CAT STEVENS I believe Islam was truly spread by example. So whatever good a Muslim does publicly will be seen - ...
CAT STEVENS There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
CAT STEVENS As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice ...
CAT DEELEY I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
CAT OSTERMAN You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you ...
CAT DEELEY Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it
CAT PATRICK Monotheism is a gift from the gods.
FIRE CAT I use a lot of fresh citrus, garlic, and fresh herbs when cooking to cut down on fat and sodium but ...
CAT CORA I love bold, colorful party dresses because they don't need accessories. Just throw one on and y...
CAT DEELEY I think that if you keep your eyes and your ears open and you are receptive to learning, there are s...
CAT DEELEY I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthi...
CAT CORA Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times ...
CAT CORA Following the devastating India Ocean tsunami of 2004, I founded Chefs for Humanity, modeled after D...
CAT CORA I'll never stop appreciating how lucky I am.
CAT DEELEY Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are ...
CAT CORA From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record...
CAT POWER It's fun to pick a cuisine and say I'm going to research Ethiopian food, and see what it'...
CAT CORA The type of cuisine I do, especially after being on 'Iron Chef' for several years, is a lot ...
CAT CORA I could get up to a lot of mischief and no one would know it was me
CAT DEELEY I guess I like them a bit rough around the edges - like you need to take them home and give them a g...
CAT DEELEY I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like...
CAT OSTERMAN We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped ...
CAT CORA If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider dia...
CAT DEELEY A national championship. That's it.
CAT OSTERMAN It was hard once it got closer, and we tried to not think about it. But I knew it was coming, and I'...
CAT OSTERMAN I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me,
CAT OSTERMAN I think that's my No. 1 goal,
CAT OSTERMAN When I came back to reality I called my dad and said, 'You won't believe it. We're going to New York...
CAT OSTERMAN It's fun. It's fun to be able to come out and see the kids smile and see them get excited.
CAT OSTERMAN I knew of this award, but in my mind I never thought I'd get it,
CAT OSTERMAN Since I'm still in college, it's kind of hard to be able to do clinics. I can only work with so many...
CAT OSTERMAN It's pretty hot and humid out here but we all fought through. Our defense made great plays and I fee...
CAT OSTERMAN I'm really excited for this opportunity to try broadcasting. I'm a little nervous, but it's somethin...
CAT OSTERMAN I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.
CAT DEELEY I don't even own my own name on the internet - somebody else bought it.
CAT DEELEY Everybody has a bad hair day, but us girls still like to be told we look nice even if we don't feel ...
CAT DEELEY Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
CAT DEELEY As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your...
CAT DEELEY A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning...
CAT DEELEY I still feel I have lots I want to achieve. I'm far too selfish to have babies yet.
CAT DEELEY Tonight we bring you a soap star special,
CAT DEELEY I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It'...
CAT CORA I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you...
CAT CORA I don't come from money or an educated family background or any sort of supportive family life, ...
CAT POWER The thing about being at home versus being out in the world working is, it's a whole different v...
CAT CORA I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academi...
CAT DEELEY I've been experimenting more and more with LN2, liquid nitrogen. I've used it in battle on &...
CAT CORA Right now I'd love to be sitting on a Greek island somewhere because of being Greek American, ea...
CAT CORA I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.
CAT DEELEY I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out...
CAT DEELEY I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains ...
CAT CLARKE Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.
CAT POWER A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means...
CAT DEELEY My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great exam...
CAT CORA I'm not a professional entertainer. I'm not Neil Diamond.
CAT POWER . . . it's part of the adventure!
CAT MCMAHON You just go where your high-top sneakers sneak, and don't forget to use your head.
CHESHIRE CAT We're all mad here.
CHESHIRE CAT It's already bad. I'm honestly not sure how much worse it's going to get." Notice that I didn't say ...
CAT ADAMS Megan has the loudest laugh the in the world. You can hear her from a mile away with that laugh. Meg...
CAT OSTERMAN Es curioso como la posibilidad te puede levantar los ánimos. Es curioso como la realidad te puede h...
CAT PATRICK I can always change the future.
CAT PATRICK Olvidar es un lujo, nadie vendrá a llevarse las cosas que quisiera no haber visto, las cosas que qu...
CAT PATRICK Who knows until we experience it? I think that heaven and reincarnation are both ways of making us f...
CAT PATRICK Real mature London,Thanks a lot
CAT PATRICK Para mí, leer es recordar.
CAT PATRICK My heart leaps as I remember this morning's note. This boy is my weirdo.
My weirdo is hot.
CAT PATRICK Jo Lane had in fact lived there for five years until she moved on. “Where did she go?” I asked i...
CAT PATRICK There was an awkward silence
Until I throw a rock at it
CAT PATRICK When I finally accept it, the truth stings. But there's no time to dwell on it, and there are only t...
CAT PATRICK Trying not to think about it is only making it worse.
CAT PATRICK ....LondonLane: I’m sure I don’t remember everything. I remember the future the way you remember...
CAT PATRICK Luke and I stay nestled together until he nudges me.
We’d better get going, he says gently.<...
CAT PATRICK Tomorrow is Monday so it must be the weekend
CAT PATRICK The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.” “...
CAT PATRICK Okay, fine, we were married elsetime. Anyway, we died of whatever you die from, let’s say natural ...
CAT PATRICK I can’t stay away from you,” he whispers...“Don’t stay away from me, then,” I whisper back...
CAT PATRICK I think it’s just the whole package. I can’t pick you apart. I just love all of you. I think I a...
CAT PATRICK Funny how possibility can lift you. Funny how reality can slam you down.
CAT PATRICK The simplicity of knowing what’s coming isn’t so simple after all.
CAT PATRICK Tears upon tears splat on to the lined pages in my hands as I read about a nightmare come true. Quic...
CAT PATRICK The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.
CAT PATRICK For me, reading is remembering.
CAT PATRICK Maybe I see myself with kids, given the right place and right moment, with the right person.
CAT DEELEY If I break records along the way, then it is nice, but I don't think that's why most of us are here.
CAT OSTERMAN We are all accountable to each other. And when Megan [Willis] can clear the bases like she did today...
CAT OSTERMAN Purchase items that can be made into several meals, like a whole roasted chicken, or bag of sweet po...
CAT CORA I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I ...
CAT POWER I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn...
CAT DEELEY I've always done things myself. I've never bragged or screamed that I produced a record befo...
CAT POWER I don't shop because I need something, I just shop for shopping's sake.
CAT DEELEY I think people are more savvy about cooking, food and dining. I notice they are looking for more val...
CAT CORA Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure—they can be ...
CAT CORA I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I a...
CAT OSTERMAN If eating out, order your meal and ask the server to wrap up half of the portion to take home with y...
CAT CORA This is the real way a friendship ends. Not with some huge screaming row, but with a gradual withdra...
CAT CLARKE Best fabulous flamingo friends forever.
AISHA CAT And do you know the oddest thing about murder and war and violence?'

'Oh, Mary Shelley, p...
CAT WINTERS Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells-style world - a horri...
CAT WINTERS What type of world are we living in, if we're destroying books?
CAT WINTERS We live in a world so horrifying, it frightens even the dead
CAT WINTERS I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'
CAT DEELEY I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.
CAT DEELEY I know growing up as a young gay person how much you hate yourself, how much you already think you&#...
CAT CORA When I was growing up in Mississippi - it was good Southern food... but I also grew up with a Greek ...
CAT CORA No one knew I was gay growing up but I was bullied. I was a cheerleader, fairly popular and consider...
CAT CORA I think about food all the time. It's my passion; it's my profession. But some people think ...
CAT CORA I launched Chefs for Humanity, a national nonprofit, with my voice, heart and money from my own pock...
CAT CORA I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that...
CAT CORA Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating ...
CAT CORA I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thi...
CAT DEELEY You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridicul...
CAT DEELEY I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!
CAT DEELEY Success is hard in general for most women. We now have such busy lives, and we're told we can do...
CAT DEELEY I love people who are very honest and very open and don't pretend to be anything they're not...
CAT DEELEY I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!
CAT DEELEY Jewellery is a great way to take your look from day to night.
CAT DEELEY When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself.
CAT OSTERMAN Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn&...
CAT DEELEY Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.
CAT DEELEY To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because...
CAT DEELEY Nothing gets you to mend your heart quicker than throwing yourself into work.
CAT DEELEY I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or l...
CAT OSTERMAN But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I thin...
CAT OSTERMAN And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I&#...
CAT OSTERMAN The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a goo...
CAT OSTERMAN I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embrac...
CAT OSTERMAN We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.
CAT OSTERMAN The biggest thing is no matter what level I've played at, there is something I can bring to them...
CAT OSTERMAN If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the t...
CAT POWER Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.
CAT POWER I got more guts than brains, and that's my problem.
CAT POWER I am human and I make mistakes.
CAT POWER I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I...
CAT POWER Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playin...
CAT POWER I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used...
CAT POWER I've always dressed like a dude.
CAT POWER People and their religions don't affect me.
CAT POWER I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.
CAT POWER I need to be able to face things.
CAT POWER I still haven't been able to capture the joy of what it's like when I sing - you know, when ...
CAT POWER Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I jus...
CAT POWER There's just a lot of stuff that really moves me, and I don't know how to express it, and I ...
CAT POWER People tend to think I'm insane, and I'm really tired of it.
CAT POWER We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying ...
CAT POWER For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some...
CAT POWER After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn&#...
CAT POWER Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up l...
CAT POWER I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS