“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.”

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don’t know it all. I think it’s a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you’ve already done.

That’s a sound design thing but then we wanted to do music that would not disturb it and at the same time drive it.

Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.

There is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it’s Indian or it’s Western.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

Your best success comes after your greatest disappointment.

There were basically three themes. One was the sun theme which is the guitar when he’d get sun on his leg and it comes again in the end. And there’s of course the lullaby which Dido sang, “If I Rise.” And then there’s this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.

You will find poems hidden on my whole body, Which I would never be able to put into words and write them out.

Never stop your girl from fulfilling her dreams, identify her hidden wings and let her fly.

You ever felt empty inside but you try to hide it

A wanderer who found beauty in a quiet jungle and went into a mysterious paradise in search of a treasure of silence in which the whole universe hides.

Sometimes the prettiest souls are hiding the most violent demons.

Every heart hides, wounds that never bleed.