Femi Kuti tells Yes! International magazine:
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"I will never get married again. I don't think I will ever
be able to trust anybody. I will never be able to give
any woman that chance. First, I will never be faithful.
Never ever! I will not even try to be faithful. I won't!
Because first of all, I don't even believe a woman
would be faithful to me. And why does she want to be
faithful to me? First, I think it's very unnatural and I
can not even imagine standing somewhere and one
man will say 'I pronounce you man and wife. Who are
you to pronounce me man and wife? Okay, I
pronounce myself man and wife. There's a girl who
lives with me now. She's not as jealous as most of
my other girlfriends.. She knows I like women, so we
understand each other. She doesn't question me, I
don't question her. She takes cares of our child, no
wahala. But the minute she starts being over-
jealous, we are going to start to fight. She's the kind
of person that I will say, that girl is fine o, and she
will say, should I chase her for you? And I will say
don't worry, I can do it myself.
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He said a lot more...
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It's about freedom expression, freedom of the mind,
freedom of being able to live and if that institution
can not give me that, why should I go into an
institution that is about restriction? It doesn't mean
that I'm somebody that wants to sleep around, I just
don't like 'don't, don't, don't! I don't need an
institution to tell me that.
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I don't want anybody to question me. Who are you to
question my life? Have you heard any of my song
questioning anybody? And every time I've tried to
love, they have broken my heart. From day one -
either because I'm Fela's son. I hear the parents say
'oh, you want to marry Fela's son? God forbid. Even
Funk that I married, when her mother found out I was
Fela's son, she scream no o! God forbid. Funke had to
runaway to get pregnant o! And we ran away to get
married. So, by the time she and her mother made
up, of course, the marriage collapsed.
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So you see, I try to be straight forward. Why should I
lie? I'm popular and I now want to be sneaking from
house to house or lie to my girlfriend? There's no way
they won't catch me so it's better you're truthful. So I
don't start a relationship with 'you are my one and
only, bla bla bla. No! I like you very much but the
possibility of liking someone else is there. I tell them.
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Even my wife Funke, I made this very clear to her. I
don't start my relationship based on you are the only
one, I want to marry you, you're the apple of my
eyes. I start by being very truthful.