Sometimes language is not enough.

I think where you play is important.

I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.

One of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another.

I love communicating with people, and sometimes language is not enough. I think that's what poetry is, where you can mess with language and get through to things that can't be described or communicated through regular language or scientific processes.

In Western classical music the idea of holiness, purity, perfection, and total beauty is expressed through clarity of sound - a bell-like sound. Obviously, that has its own place, and it's a beautiful way of doing it. But I don't think I am the first to point out that in Africa, the more buzzing the sound is, the more it indicates the other world - the spirit world.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.