I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

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.

We built that Wendy House our own selves, for Wendy! And you can't keep a Wendy out of her own Wendy House!

I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for… And I woke up!

You may not have a clue of what lies ahead, but it’s better to act on life than simply let life act on you.

Don't be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail.

Saying of the ProphetTruthSpeaking the truth to the unjust is the best of holy wars.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

I leaned back against him and rested my cheek on his shoulder. I could feel the river water dripping off of him. "Thank you" I whispered. When I looked up, I saw he was crying.

Whatcha gunna do when Hulkamanina and my 24 pythons run wild on you?!?!?!!?

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