The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.
I mean, I’m 48 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life – you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations… We all have dreams.
I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place.
For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn’t the art of photography but I don’t agree.
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you’re very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.