Quotes About Music

When Punjabis all over the world admired my work, there was buzz in Bollywood as well.

When you have had the high of being on stage, especially in a band like ourselves, I can't help but search for that buzz.

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

My music was liked by the people.

I feel like there's no one kind of person who comes to my shows. Sometimes I've been surprised by the people who will stop me on the street to tell me that they're into my music.

I had written six scores by the time I was 20, and I'd never been paid a dollar.

Life got very good - we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff - drums, a PC, turntables.

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

I started playing guitar by the time I was 9.

I think part of the process of putting out a record is always looking back because, by the time a song comes out, it's been a year since you wrote it.

I got to play with incredible musicians, but it happened really fast. I couldn't believe it was all happening, and so by the time I was, like 18, 19, I sort of took a break and was just like, 'I'm not ready for this.'

I wanted a guitar when I was 4 or 5, and I learned how to play guitar by the time I was 6. Just self-taught.

By the time I went to college, I had totally embraced my Indianness, but I still didn't tell anyone I could sing.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I really love Death Cab.

I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.

I've always wanted to do a cabaret.

There are no calculations in the records I make. I record as many songs as I can. Songs that I think are my best.

We never really wanted to play in California.

California is one of the most country-est states there is. We're really country.

'Somebody's Calling Me' was written in my sleep, and the original was just the piano and the beat and the singing.

I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmonton, but I definitely knew that music was what I was going to do with my life.

For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.

I remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool.