I didn't see it coming at all. I just wanted to have this new experience with this team of Danny Boyle, Christian (Colson) and Simon (Beaufoy). It wa….

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

I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratc….

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 ….

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 ….

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..

That's the sound design. I watched it sixty times because we were constantly tweaking. The same thing comes twice, right? Once it comes in the beginn….

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….

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 interesti….

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

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

My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every t….

It's a very simple process. He [Danny Boyl] comes in the tube (subway) and then he sits with me for 3 hours every evening and then I work on somethin….

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 ….

Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things ar….

Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenpl….

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

I went to London to do the stuff. I was like "What am I going to do? What's going to happen?" But then once you start working, you forget all that an….

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

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 ….

It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - ….