It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren’t. Never something you set out to be. K'naan Read Quote
It’s not really that I’m interested in filmmaking. I’m interested in the instrument of it, you know. K'naan Read Quote
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I’m in that moment now where I’m finding the world’s voice. K'naan Read Quote
I’m writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. K'naan Read Quote
I’m not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give. K'naan Read Quote
You want to reach people, but you also want to reach them in the most authentic way. You now have a mass market and an audience that’s listening, but they’re in love with a song that means absolutely nothing to you. K'naan Read Quote
Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they’re about their own thing. K'naan Read Quote
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 wants to have the ‘because’ attached. K'naan Read Quote
The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that. K'naan Read Quote
