"I have learnt consistency, originality and professionalism. Talent is not enough to make a great artiste. There is a need for character, discipline, good public relations, social capital, and good relationship with fans."

"I will encourage anybody facing any challenge just to face it and determine to overcome it."

"Despite my physical challenges, I have determined to live with it and forge ahead, but not to become a beggar."

"The usual way of playing gospel music in the old days is quite different from the way it’s being played today."

"Growing up and realising that your granddad was a percussionist, it’s another validating fact that I was born a musician."

"I’m that artist that lives in a fantasy world. I just live in my head 90 per cent of the time."

"It's great to witness that I can just make music and the world can decide what it's and it becomes a movement."

"Still don't like being boxed in some type of way, I'm not that kind of artist."

"You should try as much as possible to be original."

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"We need to fix the system in general. We need to train the male child better."

"We [Mavin] are moving from the traditional Friday release date to Wednesdays and Thursdays because there are no more Fridays [without another artist dropping a song]."

"I am baker selling bread, you are not coming to my bakery to buy the baker but the bread."

"If you don’t succeed, you’ll find yourself tirelessly explaining your efforts. The need to elaborate and justify your attempts arises when there’s no proof that you gave it your all unless you succeed."

"“I no dey for all those podcast/ring light level abeg. I be professional for my profession; na only professional for him own profession dey qualified to interview ODG,”"

"A wise man can play the fool, but the fool can never play wise."

"Find out who is truly for you and who is really your Enemy. Let conscience and Confidence Lead you all, As it has lead me all my Life."

"Way I see it, everyone plays their own role in the world, and no role is more important than the other."

"If you do not speak your truth, the Lies will become your truth"

"At the end of the day, everything you chase will run."

"No evidence, you go explain tire"

"Sometimes isolation is a gift , learn how to be grateful when God separates you from the wrong people. Don't push to get back in their lives."

"My latest song, “Ganja,” is a love song, love inspired it and the way I see it, love is intoxicating."

"When I see any one of you gracing a stage, I feel like that’s me. We’re all winning and we’re about to move in like a tsunami… know that love lives on this side. As we show the world how it’s done."

"It is about showing people they can be who they are truly, without the masks and pretenses. You are a human being, and you can find yourself."

"Frank Ocean played a huge part; the first song that I’d heard by him was “Swim Good.” I used to also listen to Lil Wayne and Aaliyah. Lauryn Hill’s “I Gotta Find Peace of Mind” was very, very spiritual. I could feel the energy on it. Songs like those made me want to release. The songs that all of these artists sing are releases and the expression of their spirits."

"I got exposed to a couple of studios, and I met a few producers and started seeing the process of music being made. It made me question, “What is this?” I’d been only exploring piano and guitar at the time, and now you’re telling me I can do more than I’m already doing?"

"I love, love, love guitars and chords. I like things that are based on the instruments I originally learned—violin, flutes. I like things that sound raw and pure. When it comes to drums, I like them very percussion-heavy and in my own way. I enjoy hard kicks and tight snares."

"I used to write poems a lot – I’ll just sit down and write things I’m feeling, and it’ll come out so poetic, even if I’m just talking about breakfast."

"That sense of being an outcast continued into high school. “I just wasn’t popular; I cried a lot, I was very shy. I would cover my head with a blazer. I wouldn’t be able to talk – I just was a loner. And my only escape was the music room."

"I was very naive. I didn’t know that people lie, I didn’t know that people didn’t write their own songs. Music has always been my expression of how I felt. It’s always been my life."

"Music is my happy place. Music is the only thing that makes me feel truly at home. If I'm sad, it's the only thing I can run to. If someone says to me "here's a billion dollars, just chill" I would still do music. I mean, I'd collect the billion dollars and then do music. That's how bad it is. That's how much I love it."

"It was just very easy, it wasn't something I had to try for. So I understood music to be my thing and no matter what it was going to take, I had to end up in it."

"Freestyling, for me, feels like a release. A lot of things I feel, I can't explain, I just sing it. So it was one of those days when it was just inside me. I don't know where it came from. By the time I finished, I knew I had something special."

"Everything happened organically. The fact that so many people resonate with it makes me feel really good. I'm happy they can feel it."

"It was just really crazy. I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it. That was when I realized things have actually changed."

"Locally, I'm definitely hoping for Burna Boy, Wizkid, and Niniola. I'm also hoping for my friend, Dami Oniru. I'm hoping we can release some of our collaborations. Internationally, I'd like Stormzy, Ms Banks, and maybe Khalid. This is the longest shot ever but I want to work with Frank Ocean. Koffee as well! She's top on my list."

"Well, I’ve never felt more connected with my fans like that before. It just felt like we were all in one room and it was a lot of people, but it felt like we might as well have been in a big ass living room, just vibing. I really felt like that experience and the presence was just incredibly intense. I haven’t let go so much as I did before that day in terms of performing."

"I had a show the night before, so on Friday I was just sleeping the whole day."

"But I wasn’t thinking about how to be better in the limelight, I was just thinking of how to be a better person in general, the best possible version of myself. And I think once you start being visible, a lot of these things that you didn’t know existed start coming to light, you start knowing yourself more, too."

"What I hope that God does through me, is for the image of the African woman to be changed to something luxurious, or desired, or sought after. For the demand of the African woman to go up… Let us not be chasing foreign things, let us be something to be chased. And that can’t just happen with me; it’s a together thing. It has to happen with a whole industry of women already doing real and amazing things. That’s the future."

"The more power the people have, the greater we become as a whole."

"I don’t want to be somebody that follows; I don’t want to be the ‘after’ person."

"I think the perfectionism is definitely a Nigerian thing. For me, it’s definitely Lagos. Because if you check around the world, Nigerians are always the best at whatever they’re doing, whether that’s braids, hair, make-up, doctors… They’ll give you food and it’ll be over good, so that when you’re paying them, you know why."

"It’s not necessarily people, it’s really just a system. But once you’re an artist you’re not really an artist, you’re an entertainer – your life is entertainment for people. It’s a system of distraction."

"I can understand, when it's the speaking."

"When did I realize I was blown? When I got a DM from RiRi."

"“I think it’s important to be real with yourself and the people around you.”"

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