Quotes About Exploration

I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.

I am planning to leave Mumbai and go somewhere else in search of guys. I don't want to settle with a guy from the industry.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

If I sample a song, I usually make samples out of the whole album. Then I move on after that. Doesn't mean I'm going to release that whole album, but I do that.

In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.

As an artiste you want to experiment, meet new people and do different kind of songs.

Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do.

When After Forever stopped, I didn't want to first find a band, then see if I could write with them, figure that whole thing out, then record an album. Instead, I worked with people I knew would be good songwriters out of an idea how I thought it would sound like.

That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from Mali, like Ali Farka Toure, they're listening to Brazilian songwriters, like Gilberto Gil, to opera, to Neil Young even, things you don't hear as a kid in Caracas. I love all the music they turned me onto.

I'm always trying to find myself little holes where I can do some songwriting.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I've been really trying to hone the art of songwriting in a way that doesn't follow any sort of guideline.

I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.

Some of my best songwriting choices started as mistakes or learning curves, when I accidentally hit a 'wrong' key or something. I try not to lose that the more I learn the how's and why's of piano.

Songwriting can get pretty heavy and personal for me and I like being able to explore different emotions that are not necessarily my own.

It's important to me to not stay too confined to any specific sonic space. There is something really magical about straight folk music - it's not that I don't like it, it's just that I like so much music, I hear so many different things, and I want to try more. I don't want to be confined.

If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.

Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

As soon as I get on my boat, something inside me changes. Then I really feel what living is.

As soon as you know what you're doing, you're doing it wrong.

My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.