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.

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.

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.

I can introduce new parts because when you are on stage in front of a very happy audience or people who love what you are doing, you are able to do extraordinary things that you yourself didn't think you could do before.

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.

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

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