When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.
Rokia TraoreI'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.
Rokia TraoreI 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.
Rokia TraoreI prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.
Rokia Traore