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

About Myself Optimist Other People

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

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Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

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