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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.

Better Feel Feel Good Good Trying

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

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I am always personalizing tees to fit my personality, cutting off rocker shirts, debunking the mold of what traditional 'work wear' means, and always wearing my cause.

A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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