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

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

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'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.

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

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 am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.