“I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and ...” — Franz Schubert Quote

“I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.”

“Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.”

“Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.”

“'TIME's spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me.”

“One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.”

“'Celluloid' is set in the 1930s. During the decade, the folk-classical genre seems to have been in vogue. It didn't take much effort to compose because my guru Neyyattinkara Mohanachandran and his guru, M. M. Dandapani Desikar, used to sing this genre.”