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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.

Feel One Political Positions Sometimes Time Will

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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.

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.

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

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 last time I said it? Success is such an elusive concept. When you work for it, I think you get it in a way you might regret it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

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