I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

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

In general, in painting sometimes people like Picasso or somebody are not very well known in the beginning, sometimes they become well known just before they die, or sometimes after they have died. I think these people start to be artists after they've stopped existing.

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

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 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.