Islam is a peaceful religion.
I respect music, I do. I love it.
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.
Senegal needs a renaissance.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.
Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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.
Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
