Contemporary bands often will do tour-only releases pressed and sold only in Australia. Crikey!

I have a house, I try to spend as little time in it as possible. Not always easy on the mind and body, but it's how I got myself to 80-plus countries. This kind of routine forces one to reinvent and improvise. The older I get, the more important this is to me.

I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did.

Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

No one should die when they're 50.

Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.