If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.