"My mother died as soon as she gave birth to me. I did not get a chance to know her. They say she was a good loving lady. I was brought up by my elder siblings. My childhood was not good either as I was forced to to work in order to earn some money at an early age. I remember starting school at the age of 9, I was 5 years older than the whole class. I was the only kid with beards in my class, students and teachers regularly picked on me. It greatly affected my self esteem and concentration in class. Hence my bad grades- I almost dropped out"  (Kireku-Bweyogerere, Wakiso)

"I am trying to reconnect and get my family together. They're not in good terms with me. I recently held a wedding party and almost all my family members boycotted the ceremony. It was just my in laws that attended. I almost fainted. I am sorry to say this but my wedding ceremony has become the worst moment of my life. We had some issues way back and I thought they had forgotten and forgiven but I guess I was wrong- I still owe them an apology despite the many times I have cried and apologised"  (Sironko, Budadiri)

"My biggest struggle is these so called investors that come from the city and try to grab our land. I am a poor man these people come with policemen armed with guns and papers they call court orders, I can hardly read or write. All I understand is that this land belongs to me from my great ancestors- I shall fight for what belongs to me with what I have. Since the government doesn't care for the poor"  (Budadiri, Sironko)

"I am proud to be a gishu, I think every gishu boy's biggest fear is circumcision. Because it has to happen no matter what you do. You can run and hide in Kampala for as many years as you wish as most coward 'boys' do but when you finally come back to your home land you have to face the knife to be initiated in to manhood" "Whats the best thing about getting circumcised?" "You don't have to kneel before anyone, since you're now a man"  (Budadidri, Sironko)

"I'm sad because my big sister hit me. She doesn't even know I don't like her anymore. Every time she hits me I come and sit here alone" "Why does she hit you?" "It's because, because I went and ate all the sauce that was kept for supper. I didn't even finish it all. And am going to do it again. I don't care if she hits me again-I just love meat(beef)"  (Bweyogerere-Kirinya, Wakiso)

"If you had the attention of the world for 5 seconds. What would you say?" "Be the change that you want to see" *smiles*  (Makerere, Kampala)

"We have an organisation as women in this village. Where we meet twice every week and talk about issues concerning us from financial to domestic challenges. At the end of every meeting we have a saving scheme where we collect money that can be used to help members in need. Today is actually a sad day one of our members lost a relative so we collected some money that catered for part of the funeral from food to the Public Address system- I took part in the cooking myself"  (Budadiri, Sironko)

"I believe God created people like us to be in society for a reason. I am not a beggar. I am not a drunkard & I am not retarded either. We are all created in God's image, so young man don't feel so better off and superior than me because you're all dressed up. I am just following what the bible says "Ask and you shall be given, seek and you will find, Knock and it shall be opened for you"- I sought happiness and found it in booze, Can I have some five hundred shillings [500UGX]? I am not going to spend it on booze. I feel feverish" (Budadiri, Sironko)

"In music just like anything else in life. You need to be disciplined and respectful. It don't matter how many hit songs you got playing on the radio, how many street anthems you made. You have to be respectful to people that have been in the game before you"  (Makerere, Kampala)

"With my kind of job you raise and bring up a lot of children, take care of them like they are your own. Make them food, play with them, bathe them do all kinds of fun stuff with them. I remember a situation where this one kid got so used to me that she could not listen to anyone except me, we had tight bond. Not even her mom told her what to do. She shared a bed with me and called me her big sister. She's the only one that never made me feel like a house-maid. She made it so hard for me to quit as I kept extending time. I think that was the toughest decision I ever made- It made my heart bleed when I heard she cried for weeks when I left. Her mom called my phone several times asking me back. But I could not turn back I had made up my mind"  (Kirinya-Kavule, Wakiso)