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

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

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.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

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 lived for music since I could think.

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