My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

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

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.

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've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.