It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Some audiences can shake and bang their heads on the stage to riffs all night long, but subtlety is an art that must be mastered if you're going to be remembered.