The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.