It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am..

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

My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me.

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 un….

Mindless violence, well let me try to paint it. Here's the 5 steps in hopes to explain it: 1, It's me and my Nation against the World 2, Then me….

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 d….

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

I think it's a mistake to work on success in career. I've worked on my passions obsessively. How can I say what I want to say more precisely than the….

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..

When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag.

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

The pirates are serving a purpose right now. They come from regions which have been completely ignored, and Westerners have tried to destroy these re….

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. ….

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 was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and i….

You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice..

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

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 s….

There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hea….

When I get older, I will be stronger.

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