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.

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with my father.

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

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

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

I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.