Senegal needs a renaissance.

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.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

But then had come the voice that said, "Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are, whatever the hell you are, let’s get this done with.

When it’s not meant to make you up, it’s meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bold to say “no”.

People suffer all over the world, every day. But people triumph all over the world every day, too.

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

Sharing pillow talk with the wrong people can make a hard bed to lie on, and will surely lead to nightmares in your relationship.

The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.