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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.

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.

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.

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.

Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

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 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 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.

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.

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.

When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless – or so I thought.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

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