I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have taken us, which is a failure and for them to totally come out and accept is a failure.

I don't smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won't smoke again. Probably I will when I'm 60.

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't teach history.

I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.

Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really.