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. — K'naan Copy Share Image
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. — K'naan Copy Share Image
The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the… — K'naan Copy Share Image
There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than… — K'naan Copy Share Image
It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know. — K'naan Copy Share Image
My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me — K'naan Copy Share Image
The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world. — K'naan Copy Share Image
My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who… — K'naan Copy Share Image
Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I do think that some of my songs, like Take a Minute, are like the train between the two worlds. It starts out with… — K'naan Copy Share Image
It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks — K'naan Copy Share Image
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… — K'naan Copy Share Image
To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false… — K'naan Copy Share Image
