The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.

It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

We must open the doors of opportunity.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.

I don't think Apple has to own a content business.

People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.