People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

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.

Playback singing is fun and good money. But it's no big art really; only the film and record people glorify it with all those gold and silver discs given to singers. I wish I could take all of them to the goldsmith and draw the metal out.

I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.