“It’s always the music first for me. But if the music isn’t selling, there isn’t gonna be no business. So you gotta make sure music is always the first priority.”

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!

Let’s break out of our past and concur the future

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the ’60s and ’70s and ’80s, that’s what it was.

The difference between dreams & success Is, dreams need effortless sleep & success needs sleepless efforts.

Damn life is so short.

I make sure to stop by in every city they exist to attend to my sweet tooth.

I’m a polygamist. I can afford to have as many wives as I can afford to have. All Africans believe in it. My dad has four wives.

I don’t want to know I’m getting older. Then I’ll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don’t want that.

Mobilizing all the youth to develop Africa. It’s our time. I hope the world is paying attention.

Party don’t stop. Only gets crazier when I touch down.

As long as you’re giving up quality records and you’re makin’ hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit and they’ll always want to be attached to something that’s doin’ great.

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

I know nothing about technology.

The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into.

Before you reject an idea, find at least five good things about it.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

Excellence at everything you can do can be achieved on if it is a habit.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Only a fool never changes his mind.