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

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

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

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

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.

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology.