Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.

God save us from people who mean well.

Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.

All you who sleep tonight Far from the ones you love, No hand to left or right, An emptiness above-- Know that you aren't alone. The whole world shares your tears, Some for two nights or one, And some for all your years.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.