His songs meant a great deal to me when I dropped out of school and hit the road on my motorcycle. Particularly "On the Road to Find Out"

As for his turn to Islam, most of it I regard as his own business.

On a side note, one of the great albums of history, "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" consists of various religious Islamic chants, radio proselytizers, sampled and mixed by Davied Byrne and Brian Eno.