If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.

If you really kill, you don't want to talk about it.

In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.

[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land.

It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.