I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.
Don't let anyone define and decide for you fate.
For me, from the point of view of my life, I've been impacted by women that taught me that, as a woman, my body is a sanctuary, that whoever I invite in my body, I have to be clear in that invitation.
If everybody can be happy with what they achieve with their life, this world would be a better place.
I am a storyteller with my music. And my story, nobody gonna tell it for me.
As long as you are happy with your life, you'll have less problems.
What we have to learn from the women of Africa is that every day is worth living.
We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.
I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.
What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.
Doing an album is like having a business card; to show people what you do. The most important thing to me is the stage. I do albums because I love the stage.
Africa is not just about where you are born. For me, Africa is the whole continent; from south to north, to east to west.
Even the most racist person make a very painful racial comment, give him a smile. It's better than you take a weapon on him because he's just gonna go like, "Oh." He's just being stupid.
I don't care about what people think about me.
As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.
As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.
Don't let misery bring you down.
There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.
If you're on stage and you're more concerned about your dress, and then you think that the public is accessory, you got nothing to do there.
I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music that I do, and the subject that I'm speaking of at that time.
If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.
I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.
With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
I’m honoured when Africa recognises me
