All My Experiences Removed Geography From My

I Had To Run Away From Home In Order To Be A Musician. Because I Came From A Family Of... My Father Was A Health Inspector; My Mother Was A Social Worker. And I Was Pretty Smart In School. So They Expected Me To Be Some Kind Of Academic - Schoolteacher, Or Doctor, Lawyer - And They Were Very Disappointed When I Told Them I Wanted To Be A Musician.

I Think That Anybody From The 20th Century, Up To Now, Has To Be Aware That If It Wasn't For Louis Armstrong, We'd All Be Wearing Powdered Wigs. I Think That Louis Armstrong Loosened The World, Helped People To Be Able To Say "yeah," And To Walk With A Little Dip In Their Hip. Before Louis Armstrong, The World Was Definitely Square, Just Like Christopher Columbus Thought.

The Afro-american Experience Is The Only Real Culture That America Has. Basically, Every American Tries To Walk, Talk, Dress And Behave Like African Americans.

I Always Make The Joke That I Go Home, To One Of My Homes, To Go And Do Laundry So I Can Go On The Road Again.

My Biggest Obsession Is To Show Africans And The World Who The People Of Africa Really Are.