I grew up with reggae music.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

Africa is the future.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

I have met the devil - he is not!

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The unknown is the biggest question.

Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.

The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project.

I unsettle all things.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.