I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician

I used to be younger than my producers but now I'm older than my producers and I think that works for me, that works better cause you get a good kick up the ... everyday.

Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.

Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.