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" If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music. "

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" I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions. "

" You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person. "

" When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities. "

" Change means resistance, and resistance means transformation and igniting energies. "

" There should be no borders, race, colours, or ethnical considerations when it comes to music and creativity. "

" Back in Kuwait, I had started listening to a lot of English language music: western music, I would say - Kate Bush and Radiohead - and I loved Chet Baker, Etna James, a lot of singers and a lot of bands. "

" Women are a minority the same way gay people are. "

" My dad was a brilliant civil engineer. My parents later divorced, but we lived in Abu Dhabi, Greece, Kuwait. "

" When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring. "

" There are many positive values that come with a Muslim upbringing. But when religion becomes about rules and hierarchies, when it starts to feel like a prison, I'm not interested. "

" I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself. "

" There is something spiritual about art that connects us with ourselves and with others; it's really about coming together and creating bridges. "

" All of the Arabic women I grew up listening to or watching had a very strong character. "

" It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change. "

" Every time I go to Beirut, I see people and the quality of life going slowly from bad to worse, and from worse to even worse. "

" I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war. "

" I don't believe that there is a separation between art and political consciousness. "

" Egyptians are quite incredible people. They have everything: the culture, the music, the scenes. So much of Arab music and art started there. "

" World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality. "

" I always had this crisis: where do I come from? I was never an insider, never an outsider; I was always in the middle. But it means I never have borders in my head. "

" Imagine a singer with the virtuosity of Joan Sutherland or Ella Fitzgerald, the public persona of Eleanor Roosevelt, and the audience of Elvis, and you have Umm Kulthum. "

" I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences. "

" Without freedom and without humor, our cultures can't have a healthy evolution. "

" I studied psychology at university. "

" I am interested in exploring encounters where worlds meet and not where they separate. "

" When it comes to the lyrics, I write about my own perception of things and use characters for that. "

" I'm Muslim but not really. My family did not care. And I always managed to skip religion classes when I was living in the Gulf, even when they were obligatory. "

" The Arabic music I listen to is extremely edgy. Ironic, sarcastic, sensual, erotic. "

" The Arab world is mediatised in a way that gives too much space to these people - puritans, extremists, whatever you want to call them. There are a lot more people like me in the Middle East than you might think. "

" 'Al Jamilat' is not just feminist. It's an album with songs that feature women: women who are in love, rebellious women, political activists, women who are more submissive, women who are in charge. "