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

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

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 lived for music since I could think.

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.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.