Any form of classical music is made for youth.

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.