K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

— K'naan

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those…

— K'naan

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all...

— K'naan

I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.

— K'naan

From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what…

— K'naan

It is the very survival of the streets that makes children pick up guns in Somalia, not some older, wide-eyed rebel leader.…

— K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even…

— K'naan

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the…

— K'naan

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better…

— K'naan

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

— K'naan

You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass…

— K'naan

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two…

— K'naan

It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.

— K'naan

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

— K'naan