When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

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.

Kindness has no religion. Religions are like narrow tracks but kindness is like an open sky.

Worry is like a squatter: it sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent! Serve it eviction papers"! HS/el

We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

The only thing which separates man from child is all the values he has lost over the years.

Each profession has its own toolkit.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Cristiano Ronaldo loves scoring goals. Only HE can achieve what he's achieving.