To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.
Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.
