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

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.

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.

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.

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

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

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