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.

I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.

You can't be unique any way. Music is made from seven notes. You will always come back to something. Even if you think you are unique, you will come back to something that existed before you were doing what you are doing.

I don't know if it's due to my age, that I'm older now, [but] I love the essentials. I don't like the things around us that are a kind of mirage.

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

For me, each time I'm on stage, each time I'm working on a new album, it's like a dream. I can't believe it's happening.