What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
I don't care about what people think about me.
Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
Telling my story is to empower people to believe in their own power. We have so much power individually.
The richness of Africa, culturally, is vast. That's the challenge that we have to face, because most of the time, people in the western world, their attention span is really narrow.
You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.
But this isn't just about Kenya. This crisis is devastating the whole of the Horn of Africa. Millions of people are still suffering.