Africans should be talking and ask questions, like why does America and Russia have the right to veto votes? These countries talk about democracy and….

My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep ….

Whenever I'm faced with an issue, I deal with it squarely, even if I was going to fail, I try to learn from my mistakes. So if we appreciate our past….

I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog..

I think this my last album - No Place For My Dream - truly is my best work. My fear now is, I don't know if I can do better than this in my lifetime,….

Someone asked me what legacy I wanted to leave and all my answers were so long that I even bored him. I said I don't care. Why should I? I will die s….

I don't understand, who is God. I don't understand God. But to simplify that, I will say I believe in creation. They say God is the Supreme Being. I ….

Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you about virt….

Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and m….

Spirituality is when we can't explain everything in life, totally. So, we have a spiritual meaning for it; we don't know why we are here really..

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye.

I will never put anybody before my family because your family is your family..

I don't smoke or drink, but I will not tell you that I won't smoke again. Probably I will when I'm 60..

We need to teach our children history, right from the primary school level, for them to better understand the issues. In my son's school they don't t….

I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father..

Who knows why I had to go through what I had to go through to produce the kind of music I produce today, to be one of the greatest Africans playing m….

Now we have to understand that slavery would not have ended if it was left to the Africans alone, Now, Europe understood that what they were doing th….

I think part of our faults as humans is that we are very arrogant and I think we have taken many things for granted because of the way European have ….

I'm not saying we are not to be held accountable. What I'm saying is that we need to appreciate past, if you don't appreciate past, you cannot unders….

It is history that has distorted our lives and complicated issues. The good thing is; whether we like it or not, a lot of us are still fighting. If t….

I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music….