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

I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

I respect music, I do. I love it.

Africa is the future.

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.

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.

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.