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

I have studied at the school of the world.

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

I respect music, I do. I love it.

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.

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.

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.