I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong.
I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music.
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put together, the lyrics, tune and my voice strive to take the songs to the next level.
Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
A. R. Rahman is truly India's Mozart. His music is celebrated worldwide.
Music companies and buyers are not too encouraging towards independent musicians. Everyone wants to play safe and go with established names, but unless one breaks this routine, no new talent will come and survive.
The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
We want our music to reach everybody, so we're using the Internet. Every kid today is online, and we want to make sure our songs reach every one of them.
Opening acts are hard, really hard. There's more politics involved than music, sometimes.
I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are - and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.
I have tons of friends in the heavy-metal music world, and just going to see them inspires me.
I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
When I make music, it's a very visual thing. Conjures up a lot of images.
A lot of people who have been perceiving my music have been trying to formulate a genre for it, and I think it's just a natural thing; it doesn't need to be categorized. It doesn't need to be sectioned, if you will.
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude...
I was always wrapped around music being a tradition, a skill.
I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.
