I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
I respect music, I do. I love it.
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.