“My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.”
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Politics is politics art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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 - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
I respect music, I do. I love it.
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.
