It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

To me,music is oxygen & I know that someday even if I can’t sing,I can always continue listening to it.

An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!

There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing.