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.

The search is more important than the destination

There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.

I 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.

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 of course the lullaby which Dido sang, "If I Rise." And then there's this driving guitar which is the motivation theme.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

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