In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

In the West the past is like a dead animal. It is a carcass picked at by the flies that call themselves historians and biographers. But in my culture the past lives. My people feel this way in part because death does not separate us from our ancestors.

And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there.