It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.

I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.

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

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.

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

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.