Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

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

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

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