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

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

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

There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

American audiences don't react in the same way as European ones to African music because, I think, Europeans listen to this music through all the festivals that exist here.

Qualities too elevated often unfit a man for society. We don't bring ingots with us to market

Find your place in life, and GROW!

Don’t be deceived by Satan and his lies. Instead, stay close to Christ—because the closer you are to Him, the farther away you are from the devil.

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

Trying to outsmart a compiler defeats much of the purpose of using one.

I'm a little bit scared of re-recording.

Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

It surprises me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.