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.

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.

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

Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.

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.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.