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I really am a fan of combining worlds in my own life.
The kind of love people in India shower on me is overwhelming.
In every aspect of my life, I tend to look for the deeper side.
As a musician, it's only natural that my music mirrors my life.
Shiraz' is an important part of our filmmaking and cultural history.
I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.
There's a very primal, emotional response I feel when I hear flamenco.
Writing for a film means the music has to serve the film, the narrative.
I would say 'Home' is a lot richer and deeper than my earlier classical.
So many silly things happen with a baby around. We laugh more than we expected.
My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.
I am a very curious person, not just about my life in music. I love arts and creativity.
I have had other offers before but for my first film, I did not want to do anything too big.
There is no everlasting power in the music of today. Everyone is running after record sales.
People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.
I've been to the Grammy's several times for my past nominations and it has always a fun experience.
My mother is half Malayali and half Tamilian. I can speak Bengali and Tamil, but can't read or write.
I think it's helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.
George Harrison became my uncle - not by blood but through love. It's sort of an Indian cultural thing.
I work in the music world in a kind of very multi-faceted way. I work around the world, in different genres.
I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more I am feeling it.
But there was a lot of pressure to achieve and to get things right, whether in school, on stage or with my peers and family.
You know, I think becoming a parent has really changed the way that I feel impacted by what's going on in the world around me.
I think we are all individuals at the end of the day. There's nothing about culture that can prescribe who you're meant to be.
I live in the modern world, and I appreciate the most cutting-edge parts of it. But I also like to check out as much as I can.
The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it's still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.
My studio was built with a team of experts to record the sitar at the highest level possible, and I'm very happy with the results.
Alchemy is one of the good quote-unquote south-Asian experiences in that it has a wide variety of classical to experimental music.
My shows have room for a bit of improvisation. In a film, you can't have that risk; you can't have someone taking 10 seconds longer.
I lived with my teacher and he was my father and he practiced every day so I practiced every day and we practiced every day together.
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teaching, and I think the older I get I'm feeling that more and more strongly.
I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.
I think all kids are creative, so I wouldn't say my kids are geniuses. But they immediately respond to music. And they've got great rhythm!
I suppose if you make enough money with one album, you can relax the rest of your life. I would rather go for smaller and stronger successes.
Listen with an open ear is the first, most important thing to do. From there, if people feel like learning more, that's when you can kind of go deeper.
My mother is an amazing vocalist and a lot of my grounding in music has come from her. She was a student of Lakshmi Shankar, my father's sister- in- law.
I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.
Having my own studio at home is a dream, as I have a totally sound-proof room I can escape to when I need to write, and I have an impeccable room to record in.
Occasionally, if I'm in doubt over specific Indian classical or raga-related questions, I'll find myself going back to my lesson tapes or my father's recordings.
I would write songs, inspired by my baby, but then I could tell that my baby was also responding to the music. It was just kind of an amazing musical experience.
I have that typical girly aspect to me and those domestic ideals. When I cook in my kitchen it's like playing a game because it's not real for me; room service is.
With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based on the works of French poet Rene Daumal.
My parents were very unusual. They were pro-women and independence and they wanted me to have my own career. And because of my lineage, every door was opened for me.
But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.
My memories of mealtimes are a real bleed of music and food. Music never really stopped in the music room, because everyone would move out to the table with their sitars.
I try and approach other music with sensitivity. And, if it's music I don't know, I try and work with other people who are well-versed it in, so that it's done sensitively.
Not every one knows of the connection between the Indian and the Spanish music, but if they do they seem to have a real reverence for that connection. A love point in music.
In the last few years in particular, I've found that it's okay to let go of culture rather than hold on to it. And by letting go, you kind of realise that it's there anyway.
I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.