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born 1948 England

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on 21 July 1948), also known by his stage names Cat Stevens and Yusuf, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist and convert to Islam.

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Also known as: Yusuf Islam

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We believe that the civilised world is a multicultural, multi-religious world. That is the type of message we want to get across.

I never called for the death of Salman Rushdie; nor backed the Fatwa issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini — and still don’t.

We understand the anger, the anguish and suffering which this act of international terrorism has created amongst people.

I want to just get heart-to-heart, make sure people understand some of the real subtle beauties of what I've discovered.

Certainly I regret giving those sorts of responses now.

Criticize me for my bad taste, in hindsight, I agree.

Balanced arguments were cut out and the most sensational quotes, preserved.

I foolishly made light of certain provocative questions.

We believed the unison of the voices of so many people standing together against international terrorism is something to be valued and something to be built upon.

Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

It seems as if I am making a comeback but I have never really been away. It’s very strange because the whole attitude changes and everything is turned inside out. Now I am seeing the shiny side again.

Oh, I've been smiling lately
Dreaming about the world as one
And I believe it could be
Someday it's going to come.

Now I've been happy lately
Thinking about the good things to come
And I believe it could be
Something good has begun.

I'm very sad that this seems to be the No. 1 question people want to discuss. I had nothing to do with the issue other than what the media created.

Maybe I've got another job to do.

I know we've come a long way,
We're changing day to day,
But tell me, where do the children play?

I was a sitting target, in a way, for anybody who wanted to make some kind of headline.

The first cut is the deepest, Baby I know —
The first cut is the deepest…

I wish to express my heartfelt horror at the indiscriminate terrorist attacks committed against innocent people of the United States yesterday.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cat Stevens (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.