At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.

Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.

I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.