Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence.
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.
We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.
I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.
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.
I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.
At the beginning of the tour, I arrange the live show exactly like the album, but of course from one audience to another, from one venue to another, it can become longer.
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal his most compelling problems are not solved then, they only begin. He strives for power or for love, or for destruction, he risks his life for religious, for political, for humanistic ideals, and these strivings are what constitutes and characterizes the peculiarity of human life.