Quotes from Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

In India, people have greeted me with great love. Not as a Pakistani, but as a singer. They respect me and I feel very much appreciated.

If you are blessed with good vocals then it doesn't mean you start picking up anyone's song and start singing it. You should sing less but with quality.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

I belong to this family: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family. Since my childhood I have always wanted to sing and learn music. Whenever I saw Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan play, I felt inspired to be like him.

One thing is certain if something is gaining popularity that means there is a market and audience for it. New things will comes but pure Sufi music will stay as it has for centuries.

I have not yet worked with A.R. Rahman and it is my hearty desire to do so. In Jugni both of us have a song but we have not sung together.

I enjoyed working with Vishal Bhardwaj. As an artist I still think the song could have been better but everyone liked it the way it was composed, so no complaints.

Music requires a lot of attention and concentration.

But I am poised to restart qawwali and have a spiritual album of it available.

We are working on organising classical music festivals in a bid to promote qawwali there and produce films that promote music. Perhaps people lack the talent as yet, but at least there's a stable platform available to promote this as an art form.

A lot of shows take place here and people of Dubai are very good listeners too. Definitely a lot of talent comes here and a lot happens here which is very encouraging for artists.

I was born in a family of very talented people. Music runs in my blood and I could never think of anything else but this.

I always think that for each day of my life, the tune of that day is particular to that day. Each day brings a different tune and I follow whatever it is.

If you aren't faithful to your music or your people or your work, then who will care anymore?

I prefer unplugged forms of music any day to tech sounds.

MTV Unplugged is an interesting platform. They are doing a good job promoting a kind of music that ought to be heard.

But in the Indian film industry, from the moment a child is born, he is taught music, he is taken for classical classes.

Qawaali is the art, that's in my soul. It's the ground. Everything else is a passing season - wind, rain, sunshine.

We need to revive quality music for Pakistani film industry in order to resurrect it.

Salim and Suleiman Bhai are very good friends and I would like to thank them for being a part of the song 'Habibi', and I would also like to thank the very talented Shreya Goshal Ji for my duet in the song 'Rim Jhim'.

All the film stuff is business. Those are the songs I practise for, rehearse for, make money from.

It is really disturbing to see that every Tom, Dick and Harry starts singing compositions of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan as there is no one to claim it.

Indian films do well in Pakistan. Pakistani artists do well in India. The signal has always been clear that people on both sides of the fence are not interested in the hatred.