I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

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 want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.