My job is not done. I address my songs now to the third world. I am popular all over Asia and Africa and the Middle East, not to speak of South Africa, where I'm trying to go to see Nelson Mandela.

How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.