Youssou N'Dour

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Islam is a peaceful religion."