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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

Well, as a songwriter, it's really dangerous to use the word love in a song. It's a word that has been used in songs so many millions of times before, and it's the most popular topic to ever write about.

When I record, it feels like I'm in a bubble. There's nothing else in my head right then. It's just that song, and I'm trying to really sound like what the song is about.

It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.

With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

When you're walking down the street or in the car just listening to the radio, and you're, like, 'Oh, that's my song.' You want to say, 'Hey Mom!' That never changes.

If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, 'Please play it.'

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

It was a fabulous time, doing 'Hear My Song.'

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

The first song I wrote, when I was 8, was about feeling really angry - like the weight of everything on my shoulders.

When an audience takes to a song and it becomes older, in a way it changes it entirely. And then the journey just begins.

I'll get a few words and then go back to the music and then back to words, and play them off each other - and then I'll bring the song to the band.

I always wanted to create a hoodrat raunchy song.

I did a show in Amsterdam where I was supposed to do only two songs but I ended up doing 13 because they kept playing songs that I love and they played 'Viva Forever' and I started crowd surfing to it. It was so funny to do because it's such a depressing song.

For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live.

If a top singer is given a song and if that person refuses to sign a contract or doesn't agree with the pay cut, then another singer comes in picture, who might be facing some financial crisis, so he will sign the contract and sing the song.

It is demotivating, when you are called to sing for free and made to sign a contract, saying this song does not belong to you. If you want to perform the song, you need to pay the label some money. It is ridiculous.

Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.