How we approached this was I wanted this to be personal in a way. It's not a big, epic Hollywood score but really personal and intimate, and we thought guitar would be the perfect instrument for him because he's young and he has an undying spirit and all that stuff and we went on that feeling totally.
A. R. RahmanThere is only one of the two that can reside in our hearts, GOD or ego. If GOD is in ego is out.
A. R. RahmanThe music had to be rooted, and yet had to branch out,like the wild imagination of a child.
A. R. RahmanI 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.
A. R. Rahman