Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Culturally, I found myself in a very weird situation: you were the person that had made that journey to the West, and then you were going back to comment on something, and then suddenly you were questioned and told, "You can't touch that now because you're a pop star."

Whoever's inside is inside; whoever's out is out.

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations thats still surviving.

Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.

Predominantly in the West, if you can only have creative voices that are either black or white, I'm going to say whatever the f - k I want, because no one's going before you, and if no one's coming after you, I'm just going to be the freakiest of all freaks!