Quotes from Adnan Sami

I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.

I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.

While artistes do want peace, it is not their preserve alone. Everyone wants peace just as much.

I was too big to even contemplate exercise. I had to use a walking stick and a wheelchair to get around.

Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.

I am a singer; my job is to create music and harmony. Wherever I see harmony, I would go towards there.

Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.

I am blessed to be a proud father of a daughter.

If there is a new airport in Mumbai, I would feel proud about it, and I equally feel angry when I see potholes.

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

My love for my wife Roya is so intense that I gave up alcohol. My love for my father was so great that when he made me promise him that I'd lose weight, I did and lost 167 kg.!

Terrorism doesn't have a border. Terrorists attack Mumbai, Peshawar, and also Paris.

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

I am like a child when it comes to gizmos and gadgets.

The only relationships I wish to honour and keep are with my family and my dear loved ones.

Though music was not in my blood, I always considered myself belonging to music, and that remained with me throughout my studies. The studies were my parents' wish, which I fully complied with, as one must be educated at the highest possible level.

I feel that one should be health conscious, and that feeling can only come from within, so I suggest people to challenge yourself.

I genuinely believe that, physically and emotionally, women are far stronger than men. The amount of pain they have to endure for a childbirth, a man cannot take an ounce of it. A toothache or a stomach upset is the end of our world at times.

'Grateful' is a small word to express my gratitude, as God has blessed me with so many opportunities to restart my life.

I do not think classical music faces any threat because new music is being made through computer, as the real charm of classical is its purity, and one who is seeking purity will surely find classical music in spite of so many alternatives.

Sufis were always spreading love with their music, and if some kind of extremism is a threat to it, it is a threat to all humanity.

My father was a diplomat and served as Pakistan's ambassador to 14 countries. I was born in London and grew up there and studied and lived in a hostel throughout in London and became a barrister.

When my first album came out, it wasn't Bollywood. The love that I received from people was everything, and it still is everything for me.