My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or whatever - African-American. But I still think there's something in that roots music that's very, very African, and I think that's what unites people.

I only put an album out every two or three years.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

It's a global fashion thing; because of the Internet it has gotten really small. It's cluttered, but it's gotten small.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.