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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.

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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.

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.

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that's listening, but they're in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you.

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

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.

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

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.

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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

The worst crime is faking it.

The thing with me is, about that – about rock and all that – years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person.

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