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

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

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.

I'm tired of this life in Bombay. I just want to start over again at my old place, in the company of all those little people whom I grew up with. If I sing, I want to do it for myself.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.