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.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.

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

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

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.