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 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 think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I think that Louis Armstrong loosened the world, helped people to be able to say "Yeah," and to walk with a little dip in their hip. Before Louis Armstrong, the world was definitely square, just like Christopher Columbus thought.

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

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

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.