Cat Stevens Quotes

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

'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.

For me, a life without expectation results in a life with inspiration.

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

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

Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.

Angels and Airwaves is a complete, pure reflection of who I am. The philosophy, the spiritualism, the esotericism, the idea of hope and space and the themes about life and grandeur... that's all me.

I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

From my perspective, music allows me to escape from the world of what is happening right in front of me... to the world of my thoughts, my dreams, my hopes and ideas - for the world, for my own life, for the day, even for the moment.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.

I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.

Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.