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

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.

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

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.

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.

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