Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

In New York I heard A Piece of Ground, written by a white South African, Jeremy Taylor. I modified it a little and sang it myself. That song is very special to me because it deals with the land question in southern Africa. We were dispossessed of our land.

Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.

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 do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.

I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear - flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be.

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.