When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.

I believe in love, but believe it's love that keeps beating me down.

It's funny, I get a little quieter with time. I don't want to chase my tail and one day repeat myself and repeat myself and one day have kids going to college and not have memories that I should, because I was too busy doing my thing.

Sometimes it's nice to be able to reflect on the music itself and then write lyrics that I feel anyone can relate to. It's not my dreaming tree that is dead. The feeling of a loss of hope is universal. There are moments that we've all felt a little bit of it, so I don't think it is something that is too hard to identify with.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.