“I would do songwriting sessions from the age of 14, and label heads fl...” — Raye Quote

I would do songwriting sessions from the age of 14, and label heads flattered me over fancy dinners. 'We'll put you in a room with this big star,' they'd say. 'This one loves your music.' 'Your life will change forever.'

Major Lazer followed me and reached out saying he wanted to do a session. Which was sick, because I remember always saying to myself when I was younger, 'I'm gonna have a Major Lazer collab one day.'

My dad would go into companies, learn about them and set them goals.

As a woman in and out of this industry, I've been through a lot of nasty, traumatic things that I bottled up, didn't talk about, buried.

When I was 10, my dad made a little set-up in the house. We'd put a duvet over the door so it acted as a sound buffer and I started recording songs, covers using a mic we'd bought.

Mahesh is a big star, but he doesn't like to flash his money.

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.

I can't compete with really big stars. I'm not a big star; I'm just an actor who came from Delhi to pursue her passion.

Many times, one does get interesting work, but it is also work that doesn't get funded because one sure-shot way to get funding is to take a big star.