I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

I went through all these different phases. But it always felt like I was impersonating something, so I went back to some of the music I grew up with, like music from South Africa and the '80s stuff. I stopped suppressing it, and I stopped trying to be cool.

We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.