To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable par….

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance..

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form..

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it..

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social wo….

I lived for music since I could think..

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period..

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future..

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture..

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African ….

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things..

I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all be wearing powdered wigs. I th….

I always make the joke that I go home, to one of my homes, to go and do laundry so I can go on the road again..

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born..

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers..

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are..

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Afric….

I'm travelling more than ever. I don't have the answer as to why, but the demand seems to have grown as I've got older..

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and ….

In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural..

I've always stood on one fact - that all over the world, there are only two things, the Establishment and the poor people. The poor people are a mass….