I have studied at the school of the world.

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

Islam is a peaceful religion.

I have studied at the school of the world.

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

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 think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.