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.

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

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

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

The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.

Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

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