Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness.