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.

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

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

Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.

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

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