I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, all of these are branches, the root is love and that's where I went. I went straight to the root, I forgot the branches and I went straight to the root so that is how I see it, that is after I said of research and study and going through different phases of mental evolution, mental and consciousness evolution, not just believing in a book, believing in a certain idea, being willing to think for yourself and formulate your own ideas.

'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

Children are not a burden.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.

If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.