Estelle Fanta Swaray

I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.

I'm so, so full of joy that America elected Obama. He didn't win because he was black - people voted for him because he had a plan and because he talked sense and because you believed him.

I never do a show where the people just sit there and look at me. They always sing along. It's going to be a fun time.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.