Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

I probably belong to a type of composer of songs who keeps thinking about melody... I am old fashioned.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Music is a form of prayer.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.

I am a gardener of infinite time.

Composition gives proper meaning to the natural streams of sound that penetrate the world.

With an enemy like that, who needs friends?

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff.

At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.

I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?' 'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical