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.

You can fall, but you can rise also.

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

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.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

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.

I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.