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

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

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

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

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

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.