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He does whatever he wants with it, it really impressed me, as did his talent as a musician. I hadn't got any idea of what he could sing, I didn't know rai music.

Very impressed, I began to write a song on this experience and we met. I asked him if he'd like to sing for me, in a way to 'authenticate' my experience ironic smile. He's a lovely man. He sung without knowing what I was singing. As it happens, it's about desire, craving. I asked him: just improvise, in arab, on my melody.

Later I asked him what he was talking about, he answered that he sang about desire, craving of a loved person. I told him that it was exactly the song's theme! So the music suggested those words. It was a sort of unconscious and automatic process. I always considered that it was the music which wrote the text.

For this album, more than all the others, I began by writing the music, then I went walking and this music suggested a character, a story. Like a sculptor who kneads his material, then notices a nose, a leg. It's longer, but more organic. What is that World music is made in the world by everybody. It's really not a term that I would entertain at all.

On the other hand, I've always been able to assimilate influences and make them apply to my expression. I never feel that I have to pretend to be anything. I can hear music, assimilate it, understand it, and then produce something different. You can hear where it's from, 'cos all music is related.

It's not my intention to make a world music album at all. I'm making a Sting album, and I'm sure you can define what my music is. I'd rather say that my ambition is to defy the titles that people make for you. I don't do world music or reggae - I do whatever I do. But it's true that 'Desert Rose' has a definite Arabic, north African flavour, but it's one song out of The other songs are very different from that.

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