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

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

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

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.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

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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.

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.

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

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

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.

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