You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

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

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.

When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.

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.

My father was not able to get all the vinyl he used to listen to with me. He couldn't travel as he did it because of his profession as a diplomatic career.