“I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters - the moment ...” — Jessica Mauboy Quote

I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters - the moment with Snoop Dogg was amazing - but being able to tell an Aboriginal story is bigger than anything that I have ever known.

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

When I go back home, I am just Jess, no-one special.

There's been moments where I've felt, as an indigenous woman growing up in Australia, there's been that kind of rivalry of being indigenous... I've had that experience of someone saying, 'I don't know if she's going to go that far.'

When I get into the studio, it's not about trying to get a good song, it's about whatever comes naturally.

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

There are about 100 Aboriginal communities in Australia, and I'm trying to visit as many as possible to learn as much as I can.

A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that the best books already existing, besides being old, treat chiefly of aboriginal customs and habits now extinct, and of the introduction of Christianity and subsequent historical events.