I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader. My intimate experiences during these years are something which I have shared with people through my music but am very careful about how they are addressed.

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 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.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.