In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, people talk, the police talk, the people don't know anymore. They aren't free.

I have studied at the school of the world.

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!

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

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

I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.

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.