“As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I ...” — Ryuichi Sakamoto Quote

“As soon as I choose the timbre of an instrument, that dominates how I compose.”

“I'm just delighted to be living, to be able to have a simple conversation, to feel a ray of sunlight on my skin and listen to the breeze move through the leaves of a tree.”

“I have a longing for violin or organ. Is it too simple to say those sustaining sounds symbolise immortality?”

“When you compose, it's like writing. You're like a writer. You just think all the time.”

“'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.”

“Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.”