Quote by Cat Stevens
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were sp

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated. – Cat Stevens

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Ive studied various schools of thought… I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but Ive found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times. – Cat Stevens

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It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. – Cat Stevens

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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. – Cat Stevens

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I seek no longer to be a famous person, and instead I wish to live a normal life. – Sinead OConnor

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Its every teenagers dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous. – Joey McIntyre

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Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasnt really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didnt have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous. – George Thorogood

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I didnt know what to expect from a famous movie star maybe that hed be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him. – Norman Rockwell

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