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

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.

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

Of course I am stressed after I finish working on an album about what an audience will think, if it will be successful or not.

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

Of course the folk guitar is the one I play very often, but I wanted a more electric sound.

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music.

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.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

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

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.

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

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

The most important thing is to be happy myself with what I am doing.

You just have to try before thinking that you can't.

I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.

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

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.

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.

An artist who doesn't have any audience is not an artist.

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.