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EB: Thank you for that question. It's not one that's often asked in that way, and I get a

chance to really tell people what I feel about it. I think about it daily almost. I was part
of a generation that believed in a change, and was very vocal about it and demonstrative
about it and active about it. And we really, in that period, thought that that energy that
was coming from the youth, basically, that it was going to really change the world.

EB: We have lived to see, some of us live to see the facts that the people that pull strings
in this world, you know, are still around. And
change happens very slowly. Somebody said
Eric and Ulrika Bibb
change happens at the speed of... an ocean liner,
not a speedboat, you know. And it's true. I have
some kind of faith in the goodness of, you know,
human beings. I think that to not have that faith in
the goodness is to despair and to... basically lose
your sense of wonder at all that is.

You know, life is a wonderful gift.

And somehow I feel that having faith in a world of
peace is commensurate with the wonder that I
perceive.

So, yeah, I'm hopeful, but I'm also…Saddened by
what I see, and by what I see as a lack of
understanding based on... Huge ignorance of where
we come from and our history.

FD: Well, let's keep our fingers crossed and hope
things progress. As one of my friends said, things

will go back to normal, whatever that may be in the future. Who knows?

EB: Yes, it's pretty wild at the moment. It is indeed.

FD: And on a sort of related note, and obviously you left the States because you'd
travelled around the world before at a younger age with your parents. Has there ever
been a stage where you regretted leaving the States and growing up, so to speak, with
your musical career in a European continent?

EB: Not a moment. I'm grateful for the fact that I have had the experience of growing
up. In America, you know, as an African-American from the age of, you know, when I

came into the world to like 19, 18, 19, having also been to Europe as a teenager, a young
teenager with my parents. I'm happy that I've had the opportunity to experience America
and to experience looking at America from a vantage point of Scandinavia, where I've
had to really understand that I'm, you know... citizen of the world. We identify with our
nationality, but that's not really who we are, who we really are, you know, people who
are receptive to all kinds of influences. And it's not defined. We're back to that whole
categorization thing about putting people in boxes. So I'm happy to have really

understood what it is to be a citizen of the world. Really grateful for that opportunity.
So no regrets there, no.