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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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Construction of the first gas pipeline system was started during the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War, and for all those years, from the 1960s until this day, Russia has been fulfilling its contract obligations in a very consistent and reliable way, regardless of the political situation.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

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

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.

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