For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.

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.

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.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

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.

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