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

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" Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really. "

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

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

" When I started, I didn't know how to sing in Arabic - it's a very complex and sophisticated music full of codes and modes and quarter-tones. "

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

" The Arabic world was very interesting in the 1920s to '60s: there was something booming culturally, and I found my culture very desirable when I listened to these songs. "

" I'm bored, normally, when I travel. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Music liberated me. "

" I'm inspired by many artists whose language I don't understand. "

" A lot of Arabic composers such as Mohammed Abdel Wahab mixed sounds and instruments from all over the world. It's important to be able to propose new ways and new sounds without being stigmatised, censored or put aside. "

" I've always fought any form of censorship. "

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

" It's normal; Arab women have always been very active at the forefront of culture - as film producers since the 1920s; as singers, dancers, choreographers, writers for much longer than that. "

" Faith is a very intimate process that involves being sincere and truthful to a spiritual presence. "

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

" Because of the Lebanese civil war, I had a scattered childhood. I had to build my own connections to each country we moved to. "

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

" I don't think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered. "

" As an artist, you need to be true to yourself and free and not put yourself in a box that contradicts with what you feel is needed for a song. "

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

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