I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.

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  I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.

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  I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.

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  I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp

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  I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

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  If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-an

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  As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.

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  I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that w

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  It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't wo

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  If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do f

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  What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music.