Quotes from Atif Aslam

I think have my own style; no one has ever tried playback singing before. I might release a punk rock song that perhaps other won't appreciate, but I like doing my own thing. I make music for my own satisfaction, not for money or fame.

In the beginning, it was quite challenging because I had zero acting experience, and delivering dialogues was the most difficult thing for me to do. But after I began to act, I grew as an artiste.

I am not inspired by anyone. I don't have any idol. I just follow the people around me and try and learn a few things.

I don't have a personal Facebook or Twitter account.

My parents keep me grounded. I've spent a lot of time on my own in my life, and I've learnt the hard way.

I love India and Mumbai and would love to buy a house here.

I can't force myself to make up a song. Music comes to me naturally.

Insecure people don't stage comebacks, since they don't leave the scene.

I wanted to try everything. I learnt a lot from playback singing. But at heart, I'm a pop rock singer; I'm a stage performer.

I have a crazy work schedule, I don't eat good food, and I often work through nights, but I am just doing what I love.

For me, lyrics are the most important thing in a song. And if they don't have meaning, I would never sing them - unless and until someone who loves your work asks me to do so.

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I want to do my own music. I have been there and done that, so I am not there to achieve that any more. I just want to put my music out there, and if people listen it, okay; if they don't, then fine.

People just get to see me onstage, and they don't get whole of me.

Personally, I don't think of myself as a style icon. It's basically because the public loves me so much.

Acting in a music video is basically about lip syncing songs and giving expressions that represent what the song is about. While acting for the silver screen, you have to deliver dialogues, remember them, and you have to be in a certain frame of mind.