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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

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

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

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 undervalued positions.

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 its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

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

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

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

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.

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all – it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

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