When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.

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

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

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

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.