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.

Africa is the future.

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

Senegal needs a renaissance.

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.

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.

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