My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.

Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by the music coming from different countries and different cultures and trying to make music from that, from all these experiences.

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.

The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.