"When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway."

“If you're having trouble waking up for fajr, set your alarm to play Quran. It works!”

“Chicago is incredibly gracious. People here have so much pride.”

“It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it”

“Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”

“You can't learn pathos or profundity.”

Source : "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

“We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.”

“Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.”

Source : "Silicon valley could learn a lot from skater culture. Just not how to be a Meritocracy" by Katherine Sierra, www.wired.com. February 23, 2015.