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I was born Muslim, but for a large part of my life, I wasn't necessarily raised Muslim. My father always kept everything around us, from Western philosophy to Eastern philosophy.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all this music. My father was very close friends with one of the Bedouin tribes, so I would always go there, to weddings, and I was always very fascinated by that music.

It was 1989, and the word 'Muslim' wasn't even really used in Britain at the time; you were either black or Asian.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.

The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.