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.

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.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.

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

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

I wanted to come back to the guitar after three albums and almost 10 years. I started to miss this instrument and I wanted to come back to the guitar.

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.