Cat Stevens Quotes

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

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

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.

Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

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

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

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

Music is part of God's universe.

There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

So on and on I go, the seconds tick the time out There's so much left to know, and I'm on the road to find out.

I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

If you want to be you, BE YOU!

If you want to be free be free

They have hijacked my religion.