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

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.

When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of freedom to the mind during the day.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

My dad said that the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.

Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.

Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen.

There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

Within the silence, expansion, and sustained day by day concentration, I grow permeable.

I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one.