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

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

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

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

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.

My influences are jazz, blues, European classical music; they are rock music and pop music. So many kinds of music. World music from different countries like India and China. I think that would be a shame not to take advantage and do something... not unique, because I don't have this pretension.

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.