“I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing ...” — A. R. Rahman Quote

“I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.”

“A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.”

“If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.”

“I stay pretty active, plenty of stretching.”

“I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital that we developed - geared toward improving our entire society.”

“Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.”