All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

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.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

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.

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

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.