If you strive for excellence, success will follow

I actually have a lot of couples coming & telling me that one of my songs was instrumental in strengthening their romance.

My father has been the silent force behind my success. My mother has been a constant source of guidance in my career.

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

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

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.

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