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

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.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

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.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

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

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older.