Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

I think older people can appreciate my music because I really show my heart when I sing, and it's not corny. I think I can grow as an artist, and my fans will grow with me.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.