Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.

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

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

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

Everyone wins when children - and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls' education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.

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

We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.