“Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that’s what separates the legends from the regular artists. It’s all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.”

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that ’cause that’s, like, the next step for me.

Brotherhood is measured by the Wars you’ve won not by the ones you’ve fought.

As Africans we shouldn’t ever have to reach out to build our own country, there is enough money in Africa itself.

Never start something to prove people wrong, Always start to prove yourself right.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn’t be triggered by a normal voice.

When I first heard hip-hop I thought it was rubbish because I didn’t understand the concept of people talking over music.

I just like music all the way around the board. I can’t stick to one thing – I’ve got to move around.

My ideas come when I least expect it, so I’ve always got to have a studio nearby or close by somewhere.

Living right brings the smile out of you!!

Whoever told you its not possible was lying! Keep going!

Two things that define SUCCESS In LIFE: – The Way You manage when you have nothing & way you behave when you have everything.

I always want to set myself a challenge by doing something no-one would expect me to do! But, having said that, I don’t feel as a musician you can steer too far away from what you normally do.

People will throw stones at you. Don’t throw them back. Collect them all and build an empire.

Misery is a choice. I chose happiness.

What I remember the most really was just running wild there. Barefooted, swimming in dirty lakes, selling fruit, picking mango trees, hoping not to get caught because they don’t take kindly to thieves in Africa.

A fool dreams of wealth. A wise man dreams of happiness!

Different people have different ways of doing things. For me, becoming a songwriter first and falling in love with the Nashville songwriting community and the process of songs and getting better and putting more in what I wanted to say, was absolutely vital in me even wanting to be an artist.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn’t isolated, something is wrong.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

Something ‘Drag Race’ is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don’t know everything. They don’t have all the answers.

I often see only my mistakes. I always feel I could have done better. Every artist goes through it.