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

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

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.

In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.

I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.

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

I don't really see myself as an actor.