I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

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

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

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

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 love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.