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.

Islam is a peaceful religion.

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

I have studied at the school of the world.

My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.