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

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.

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

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.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to 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.