If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.

Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.

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