I don't really see myself as an actor..

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

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a veh….

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 mistak….

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school..

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us p….

Travel teaches as much as books..

The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come….

Islam has been badly used by a certain ideology..

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

I respect music, I do. I love it..

I grew up with reggae music..

Africa is the future..

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - t….

I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so..

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

In Africa, there is much confusion.... Before, there was no radio, or other forms of communication.... Now, in Africa ... the government talks, peopl….

I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them..

When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from….

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, peopl….

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