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.

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.

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.

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

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.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

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