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

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.

If you come from Africa with your economic poverty and your cultural riches, and you meet someone like Peter Gabriel or a person from a big record company, and they tell you that what you are doing is marvelous, that makes you feel powerful.

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.

When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.