Music is the love of my life. It's a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpected and meaningful.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

Rap is not music, it's talking.

I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.

I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there's somebody with no room? It just don't make sense to me.

Songs should follow the state of mind of the actor on screen. It can be grammatically perfect, you know, with all those embellishments that the ustads are good at, only if you're singing for a film on, say, the life of Tansen.