I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a massive majority and across the world they are exploited in different kinds of ways. The Establishment depends on exploiting raw materials and the poor.

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

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

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 don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

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.