The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

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

The leadership of Christine Rampone goes without saying. She is the definition of a what a leader is.

The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren't given their power, prestige, responsibility, and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox.

Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.