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

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

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

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.

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

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

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.