World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

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.

A healthy happy life is a sacred bliss!

Heaven resonates when one sings wholeheartedly.

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

I want to make a film about a factory worker.