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

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.

I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like to hear. This kind of music I would like to listen to but I can't hear very often.

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.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

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

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.