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

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.

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

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.

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

I can say this much with confidence - that I now have a sound of my own