I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again.

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.