If you don’t trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there’s hope for that music at all.

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn’t remove the fact that it is a continent.

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me.

As long as you are happy with your life, you’ll have less problems.

I don’t like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don’t want to be perfect.

As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it’s okay for me. If it doesn’t promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

As far as I’m concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That’s the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I’m speaking of at that time.

If you’re on stage and you’re more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.