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've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture.

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

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

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

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.