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I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

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As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
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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.
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The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.
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I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
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I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
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You can fall, but you can rise also.
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My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.
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I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.
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I want to look at myself in the mirror at the end of my life and say I've done my share and I'm proud of what I've done.
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I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.
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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.
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Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.
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Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.
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With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
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We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.
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Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent from south to north, to east to west.
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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.
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