I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

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.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Friendship takes time.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

My mind is my own church.