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.

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.

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.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

Orang-orang itu telah melupakan bahwa belajar tidaklah melulu untuk mengejar dan membuktikan sesuatu, namun belajar itu sendiri, adalah perayaan dan penghargaan pada diri sendiri. (hlm. 197)

True Christianity is NOT a religion, to be a christian, you don't have to be a christian

It wasn't until I look inside myself that I found the truth of it all.

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.

Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death to conquer Him.

The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'

I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.