I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

It is one thing to be a virtuoso, but a different thing to play with compassion.

Whatever we can do to just give people a sense of hope in the face of what seems like hopelessness. That's a small thing that an artist can do sometimes.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.

What we call music is what reminds us of ourselves. And sometimes electronic music helps lead the imagination to a space that seems outside of ourselves. But it never really is.

Resonance is a physical process through which similarities are highlighted.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

To interact means being among others, and taking others into account in a way, to act.

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

I'd rather have less time than I think, than less think than I have time.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.

You have to grow. If not you're then living in regret and you're living in the past and you're not progressing forward. And I learned the mistakes that I made and they made me stronger.

I turned off my Google alerts in 2009 as I learnt that following yourself on the Internet very quickly becomes unhealthy.

In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Through yoga practice you can change the course of your life by purifying your karma. But to do that you must have an idea of where you've been and where you want to go.

Love IS the People's Power