Throughout my career I've never worried about who will be singing my song on the screen.

I was about 17 when I began my career.

Mentoring is an interesting job.

My father, Aparesh Lahiri, was a musician too, and at a very young age, I was geared up for a career in music.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

I managed to get a short film with Channel 4 Films. I cast a young actor who'd done a bit of television before, a young actor called Ewan McGregor. That was very first thing. This writer had won this competition, and I made this little short, black and white movie. I think for both Ewan and I it was the start of our careers.

When you think about musicians who are reading music, my contention has always been the energy that you're using deciphering what the symbol is is taking away from the maximum creative energy that you might have had if you understood that it's but a symbol.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.