We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

Don't let misery bring you down.