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People listened to Farsi texts, and to the great texts of our Baba Bulleh Shah, Khwaja Ghulam Farid, Mian Mohammad Bakhsh Jehlmi. People do listen to it these days, but much less than in those days.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I’m saying, ’cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I’ve ever felt to being spiritual.

You’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart. Without heart, you cannot be a Qawwal.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‘lays out a line.’ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

Yes, you’ve got to sing from the depths of the heart.

I’ve always written songs, even when I wasn’t doing anything with my personal life in music.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

I don’t think I have ever met a single person who isn’t moved by music of some kind.

If we didn’t do the tour, it would have been disastrous.