Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these regions by their constant plundering of resources and by the illegal dumping of nuclear waste. The pirates really began in order to discourage these actions - initially. And then the business became lucrative.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.