I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

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

I lived for music since I could think.

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.