My biggest dream to connect people through music has come true. In a world where there are enough reasons to separate us, the Oscars have unified us.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

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 interesting.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

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

You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.