Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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.