Don't say that you are a victim if you let somebody manipulate you.

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

You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.

I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.

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

I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.

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.