“If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you…then, I guess the music is working.”

I love the voice – it’s the most perfect instrument ever heard. It’s God given.

The music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out, like the wild imagination of a child.

Music is all about transporting people, speaking a language which languages fail to express.

My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

I think I would like to discover a new root where people don’t get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That’d be interesting.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn’t important, creative satisfaction is.

The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola.

Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.

People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That’s Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

I don’t even know where mine [Oscar award] is. My mother has hidden it because everybody who comes in wants to take a photograph of it. So what she’s done is she put it inside a suitcase somewhere.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

The more you know the less you talk.

You’ll heal after this painful chapter.

Movement has incredible healing power.

Let the healing be easier than the hurting.

Healing is a natural process happening in stillness.

Spend some time dreaming.

Healing can look a lot like violence.

I hope in my next life I am able to heal the pain I caused you.

You’ll know you’ve healed when you find gratitude in the pain that once broke you.