Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

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.

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.

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.

I believe in living in the moment. To keep working hard in all that I’m doing. Achieve my goals and leave the rest to God.

If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

For the most sensitive among us the noise can be too much.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

I'm a better polemicist in prose.

I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.

"Community" came to be seen as a chat-group: you switch on as long as your pleasure lasts, then push another button and switch off. Very easy to go in and out, join and leave.