"For many years, Yusuf Islam has been pretending he didn’t say the things he said in 1989, when he enthusiastically su…"

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

"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"

"Bring tea for the Tillerman, Steak for the sun, Wine for the women who made the rain come, Seagulls sing your hearts …"

"I listen to the wind To the wind of my soul Where I’ll end up well I think, Only God really knows"

"Ruby my love, You’ll be my love"

"Dark and empty was the place to which I’d come Cold and silent was the house my name was on Nine rooms — and a tomb i…"

"It seems as if I am making a comeback but I have never really been away. It’s very strange because the whole attitude…"

"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 be…"

"Geoffrey Robertson: You don't think that this man deserves to die? Yusuf Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie? Robertson: Yes. …"