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

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.

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

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.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.

The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.