I want to use my music to deliver a political message and sometimes to denounce, but I don't want to be a politician.

World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.

My music is like a spinning ball, ... It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to its origins.

I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!

Travel teaches as much as books.