Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

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

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.

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.

Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.