Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.

An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.

I'm a storyteller. I feel like the issue of discourse is an important one because there's a lot of political and ideological discourse that goes around, and we relate to that on an intellectual level.

Having a facility for language is an important part of being an author.

Prevention is a very important part of solving the problem of cancer.