What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.
If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.
There's no pride in having been a child soldier.
I'm rapping in English but in an African way. I'm not trying to sound like an American.
Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
Music - it's the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
When you see a Sudanese walking on the street, there is a story.
Young people are so brave when they go to fight.
I don't know anywhere where the people are hungrier for education than South Sudan.
Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.
Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.
We lack role models who can inspire our young people to make change.
What I always wanted to do when I was a kid was to speak out and help people which I continue to do afterwards.
Only a coward will use a gun to protect and get respect for themselves.
Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.
I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.
Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.
I'm still a soldier, fighting with my pen and paper for peace till the day I cease.
A cold heart is my protection mechanism. I don't really feel anything for anyone.
In Africa, you know, if you're poor, at least you can go to the forest and share some mangoes with the gorillas and monkey.
Education is the only solution for peace.
