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I still don't believe that all pieces of music are the same price. I just don't think that's America.

We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.

We're guys that like to make fun music, music that people like. And I think, for us, it's just important to always keep your mind in the right place and always keep your heart in the place of making music that you love.

This music really is us. We're not, like, a manufactured version.

When we first started in '04 or '05, that's when social media started to become a way to release music and connect with fans - and our fans were kind of at the forefront of that.

Imagine jamming with someone whose music you don't know much about. Nothing can be more stimulating than understanding different forms and genres and finding a perfect meeting ground.

When you're singing someone else's song, you're doing a job. You devote three or four hours of your life. You understand what the music director wants, his psyche and figure out how much of that you want to take in to make the song your own.

Folk has always been the mainstay of Indian music; we're very soulful people, and we like the sound of our soil.

I believe that you should make music that appeals to you first - if it doesn't, how are you going to sell it to others?

A lot of world music has come into Bollywood.

Once you sing a song, it's your song. Once a music director entrusts you with a song, it's your song. So I feel equally happy when the crowd sings along 'Pal' or 'Thadap Thadap.'

Christian music, gospel music, sometimes you'll fall asleep at church but music wakes you up, the song can speak to you in a way that's puts a fire in you. So if I'm working with a mainstream artist I'm trying to find a bigger purpose.

I trust that if God gives me music for someone else, that's what He wants that person to have. I have to trust that that's what they're supposed to do and that's the music that should specifically be released for them and their ministry, for their career and for their audience.

If I'm writing and doing music celebrating the Creator, who is the most creative being in the world - I mean, when you look at nature and when you look at all of the beautiful created things - why should I be limited in expressing myself? He's creative, so why shouldn't my music be creative, too?

Some of our strongest critics, especially inside the church, said we had turned our backs on traditional gospel music and were just contemporary R&B artists exploiting Christian lyrics for the money. But that's not true.

I don't work with an artist to try to blow up, but to see if the music can be medicine, if it can be therapeutic and serve a bigger purpose.

Music for me should be more like a mission.

Music was always a part of me.

Music is my passion, and where there is a will there is a way.

A lot of people with a range of styles and vocal tones make all kinds of music for all sorts of audiences. I'll be forever grateful for that.

My biggest failure was trying to start and run a music label. The music industry was dying, and I wasn't ready to help other people the way that they needed to be helped. I was trying to, and I was stifling myself with it.