It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.
Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.
It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.
I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.