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

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.

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.

If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.

In Thailand's history there have been dissensions from time to time, but in general, unity has prevailed.

I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris.

My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

And for a minute, maybe longer... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Muslims are right to be angry.