I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.
I just hope that I'll stay around musically for as long as I can. I love to think that I will still be satisfying myself and other people as a musician until the day I die.
Growing up, I was always around adult musicians who played for their entire lives. So that's what I wanted to do, and I always had that in mind.
People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don't try something, I don't refuse it. I like challenging jobs.
I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.
I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba.
I always knew I wanted to be a musician, and I always knew I wanted to write, 'cause the people I was listening to all wrote. I never thought it was an option to sing anyone else's songs.
I always feel I have a long way to go in my playing and my music.
The thing is, I feel like it would defeat the purpose of being a musician if I let any kind of fear of failure affect my songwriting or making an album or whatever.
I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.
Being a musician - and I like to think of myself as a musician with a capital M - you need to be an omnivore, and I think the best musicians will listen to anything and love everything, and I do.
I don't think I've ever gone on stage to be an asshole. I know one thing, from the past, and that's that my intentions always began in a pure way. I really want to just try and play the songs.
As I grow older, I just want to be a better musician, to play more.
Once a musician, always a musician.
For one person, Haydn is most exciting. Or Bach is the most exciting. For another, it's Carter or Strauss. For me - and for any musician - all of the music is exciting. And if you don't approach it with excitement, we can't be musicians.
Every time I see a musician - it doesn't matter what age - that inspires me, there's always a secret little wish that maybe we'll play together, because that's how I learn and grow and so forth, you know. But hopefully there's a lot more.
Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
I think that there are a lot of things that come along with being a musician, but I don't want to whine about them. I don't want to complain about my job.
