Your color doesn't define your brain nor your soul. You can stand next to any human being and challenge that person as long as you use your brain.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

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

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.

Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.