of strategic importance to its own citizens who i was kinda sorta enjoying because they need aid from the world bank because they need aid from the i mean they were told if you don't change you don't get money from us. so everything including education health communication transportation energy and water follows the free markets rules. agriculture was no exception governmental support was withdrawn and farmers were now on their own. after a structural adjustment the subsidies that you are buying into fertilizer into seeds and the entire cultural extension services where you moved and this is a cinch and services now have to be paid and because people did not have money to pay the never consulted extension workers so the food production just slumped and as we're talking now it is a basket case we are a net food imported country. so what our plants you don't have enough to feed the people so you have to able to import and if you don't have enough money to import you get food aid. by nairobi skyscrapers and the shadows of the kenyan capital's luxuries lies kibera . it is one of africa's

kinda sorta. whatever, it happened. you guys took the bait. i want to put the blame where it lies. you guys take the bait. morrison comes back in town. what happens next? >> he says, great. i have a good idea for an ad campaign. i will go on television and smash a buick with a sledgehammer. no. tavis: because he was livid. >> and he primarily did not write the lyrics for "light my fire." it was written by the guitar player. what did that say? he cared about the catalog. boy, i made a mistake and i have not forgotten about it since. the buick story is the first story that takes place while morrison is still living. he has gone on record, do not do this to our music. fast forward, another offer comes down the road. cadillac. this really is a multimillion dollar offer. the cadillac offer, what do they want, what song? >> "break on through." so cadillac starts the bidding at what? >> $5 million. tavis: and you guys say no. >> jim said we would all have veto power and we would all share the money. so i vetoed. and then they doubled. tavis: so they go from $5 million to $10 million. >> a

he was like, kinda sorta. a point that you do so many gigs, you don't recall where you were?emember whereo that's from. that's not good. tavis: it sounded good. cool.was we were having fun, that's a good thing. tavis: tell me about the new project, "magnetic," for starters? >> "magnetic" is a new album comprised of mostly original music and we have a couple of on it,uest artists robbie coal strain and carter. but the tune itself is -- i became a buddhist about six years ago -- and it's all centered around the notion of drawing positive things to your life and trying to have more enlightened experiences in life. tavis: you said two things, i'll start with "magnetic." this is -- and i could be wrong about this -- i figure myself a relatively good student of your corpus. i don't know that i've seen a project where the writing was this collaborative. your quintet, everybody seems to have gotten a writing -- these guys are talented, obviously, but am i reading that right or wrong that this time you shared more on the writing? >> you're right, you're right. tavis: just checking. ok