I've always loved making independent music.
I never had the influence of any other singer in my music, so I sounded like myself all the time.
Remakes are tricky and I wanted to approach 'Nerkonda Paarvai' as a fresh film. Taapsee and I are different people. Naturally, our understanding of characters won't be the same. Further, I didn't want to be influenced by her performance and I like it that way.
When you've got hardly any equipment, very little money and no access to any information, your sound is very much dictated by you, your setup and what you're listening to. Nothing more.
I made music just for myself.
All the sounds that I make, I want to make sure there are new stuff. I don't want to follow anyone's path or anything, I want to create my own sound.
My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.
My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.
I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.
Every song that I play I wrote by myself.
I don't particularly look at other artists when I'm working. But references do come into my work intuitively.
I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.
