I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.

I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.

What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.