I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

Islam is a peaceful religion.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.