All my experiences removed geography from my world.

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

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'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.

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 think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.

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