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.

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

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

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

I lived for music since I could think.

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.

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