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

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.

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.

I'm in a state of my life when the essential is very important to me. I don't like long songs with complicated arrangements and breaks anymore.

I think about all these influences and musical cultures, then the opinion of the audience is of course important, but when I'm working on an album or a new project, I'm not all the time thinking about what the audience will think about it.

I don't think I'm unique or that I'm trying to do something unique, but I feel it is something I would like to hear. This kind of music I would like to listen to but I can't hear very often.

I've been in contact with music since I was four or five years old through my father, because of the interest he had in music and all his musical skills. I finally managed to make that my profession.