The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.

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.

It's a great experience just to understand that finally being well known is not the most important thing.

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 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.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

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