Travel teaches as much as books.

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.

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.

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

Don't look back!" "Why not?" "Because I just did! Run faster!

How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

It has become fashionable in Washington to argue that Obamacare cannot be reversed. That is nonsense. It's a fight worth waging, and a fight which can be won.

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.

Haste breeds error; error breeds woe.

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.