You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.
I have struggled to make a place in this industry
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.
When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.
Painting is so close, so personal, so immediate, and so ordinary. . . It is the ordinary resurrections that define your painting.
For me, we've been singing diversity in movies for 16 years, so it's just beautiful to see the rest of the world finally catching on and they're making it a point to do it.
As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves.
The observer is the observed.