Arthur Ashe had been the first black athlete to play Johannesburg at the time of apartheid.
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.
Cynicism is not a good energy for me.
Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.
Going the hours without meeting anyone, inevitably there is a return on oneself.
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.
In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right.
In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.
Marley, I can sing half of his repertory, but the influence it had on me is more in my way of seeing the things from a strictly musical point of view.
New York is the city which I liked. One could go to the mass Sunday to listen to gospel, to have all the exposures, and to listen to all the music.
One arrives, one is a foreigner, a tourist. And there are smiles, people who tighten the hand, it is very pleasant.
People judged my work without to have listened to it.
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.
You arrive at a village, and in this calm environment, one starts to hear echo.
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