I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

[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.

Music is powerful. It is the only thing that can speak into your mind, your heart and your soul without your permission.

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

I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.

I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.