I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

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.

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

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.

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.

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.