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

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.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

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

Going back and forth between Western Arabic and African countries clearly created the various musical backgrounds I could have and obviously influenced my professional attitude, my way of approaching both music composition and singing, particularly phrasing.

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.