"“I signed with Open Mic only for three years. In these three years I dropped four albums. I have never received any cent of my sales. Some of my album reached platinum some gold. And a lot of hits songs that reached platinum and gold, but I continue to work without complaining.""

"I'm not above the law"

"I will be performing in Zambia maybe for the last time in my singing career and all I can promise is to give my best so that I can to leave the career stage while fans are still clapping."

"I know that there's a cancel community – you cannot cancel what you have created."

"I am asking Kenyans to continue upholding peace in the country. I am also planning to produce a song for Kenya."

"“I am taking about the contract that I signed, and no one allowed to give me a copy, I worked with Open Mic without a cop of my contract ever since they said they will send it. I kept on reminding them, but no one was willing to send me my contract.”"

"I truly appreciate his decision to given women a leading role in politics. Women have now been elevated. Even the Lord says love your mother and your father."

"If you haven't been in the child's life for many years you are no longer the father of the child, even if you decide to resurface and take responsibility"

"Heavy is the head that wears the crown. I know, because I wear one."

"But when you are a king, you must adhere to the music of the symphony that’s being played."

"I can do what I want, when I want, how I want. Go where I want. Sleep in the temperature I want to sleep in. I have a freedom that’s overwhelming sometimes. I love being free."

"We celebrities are human beings. We hurt. We get our hearts broken. We break hearts. It all comes back to who you are. Who am I today? Am I living on purpose? Or am I clawing at the void? Will I walk in my joy today and acknowledge the color purple? I’ve got jacaranda trees around my house. Three months out of the year, it’s purple. I lay here in this plethora of purple and I give thanks."

"When I’m out in the world on tour with my books, I’m not selling books. I don’t need that money. Writing these books was giving these kids the knowledge that no matter how big the fire is, they can come through."

"It’s in me, it’s what I live for. It’s like, something that you can wake me up at 12 a.m. and go and do because it’s in me."

"When I see people jolly, people, like, smiling, at least I know I’ve done something for somebody. They will go home happy, whatever troubles they came with."

"“I chose me first now. I don’t do anything because someone else is doing it.”"

"I didn’t understand why I should be barred from that restaurant or being with that person."

"Home is a myth and, at some point, I had to accept that. I have lived in so many places and I have just learned to accept that you belong where you are."

"A response to the daily experience of being harassed, grabbed and catcalled at in public."

"People in music want you to play small so you can make them feel better. That’s why you see so many bands break up no matter how talented they are."

"I’ve been fighting not for a particular area — I’ve been fighting for South Africa, I’ve been fighting for Zimbabwe, Malawi, Tanzania, Congo and all these places. So I feel I don’t belong to one place."

"She belonged to a generation of artists who transcended boundaries in art and politics long before we coined the concept of globalisation."

"I wasn’t meant to live this long,I was a sickly baby but look at me, living and beautiful. That’s a blessing."

"Her music will leave on, and we will never forget her meticulous fashion sense. Because clothing is armour and makes important statements too."

"I’m a child of every part of this continent."

"She was the living library of music and an iconic legend with vast experience."

"The way of my singing is message. You send a message: It’s love, it’s sadness, it’s everything."

"They want to know how someone like me, who hasn’t studied music, can understand it so well."

"Her music uplifted the spirit of millions across the world."

"Till today, I don’t know chords, I don’t know notes, but I can play each and every song that you want me to play"

"I didn’t plan to be a singer, singing planned to be in me."

"I was scared at first, but I am just fortunate that I have positive people surrounding me who have always assured me that although I was leaving my comfort zone, I would still make it."

"You have to let your history and your process and your longevity speak for you."

"It’s exciting and not even something I ever imagined, but it seems like a green light for me to proceed and achieve bigger things in my career"

"I do not think I was ready for it [going solo], but if you are someone on a journey to success you need to do something in order to move forward"

"“Here’s to even greater, here’s to even more grounds to conquer.”"

"“it took me 5 years and I was born on the 5th, hence the title Grace, because biblically 5 is the number of Grace. The theme is Yin and Yang, if you notice my dress code is mostly black and white. The EP tells a story of the ups and downs of so many love stories.”"

"“I started singing since my consciousness, and I haven’t stopped since. Music has always been a vital part of my life, mainly because I come from a musical family. It has always been my way of expressing myself. I was always the child that never talked about emotions, so I used Music as a way of me communicating how I feel.”"

"“The first song I ever learnt to sing was Maxwell’s ‘This Woman’s Work’ when I was in Standard One. He’s one of the artists who’ve taught me how to always put all my emotions into my performances."

"“I couldn’t be happier to be the first live performing artist from Botswana to grace their main stage. Thank you to MultiChoice Botswana for always making way for creatives in Botswana outside of the country.”"

"“I’ve always wanted to put out my own body of work because I felt like I have a lot to say through my music. I am a genre fluid musician, who just makes all kinds of music and I don’t believe in categories.”"

"We as artists are responsible if something wrong is taking place in our society. It’s very important for us to speak up, even though we may have to do it with a double tongue. We have to speak out for our people."

"Mothers should not be in a position to hold grudge with their kids"

"Children come into the world with empty brain, it depends with what we feed them"

"Children become what their mothers feed them with"

"A mother has a backbone made of steel and a heart of gold"