Social media can be dangerous. People hide behind their computers and write negative things, so I like to keep it about communicating with my fans.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

Don't dream of winning, train for it.

Dance is so important in the world. It needs no language. Our bodies speak a language of its own.

To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

Good writing is like a bomb: it explodes in the face of the reader.

That in a civil war there is continuous fighting, based on grievences that are forever changing.

Death in Somalia seldom bothers to announce its arrival. In fact, death calls with the arrogance of a guest confident on receiving a warm welcome at any time, no question asked.

Fanaticism exists in every religion, whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

Life is so short, so beautiful. Don't be so serious about work. Enjoy the lives.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.

I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.

You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.

I look around and there are needs that people have. Places have needs. These times have needs, and I have the education and the ability to communicate with it and help to solve those needs.

Being different is awesome! All of those who are different are more interesting than those who are clamoring for acceptance because they follow the path.