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.

Music for me has been my breath, my backbone since I was a little kid. Anything that comes to my life, hard time or good time, I always find comfort in music.

With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

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.

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

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