When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!
Fame, for me, is different. Fame, for me, is not seeing myself on big billboards: it is when I go on a street and people connect to me. If I going to walk on the street, I know I can get 100,000 people following me.
No one gave me an opportunity, which I desperately needed in my struggling days. If there is one thing that I have learned during that period is that you need to create an opportunity yourself if you want to live your dream.
The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.
I don't consider myself just a rapper or just a singer. I'm a music producer, lyricist. I'm a poet as well, and acting is also a part of big entertainment.
I'm sorry, but I am not interested in getting cheap popularity. I've earned my success through sincere hard work. And that's the only success I want.
I don't take my work ever for granted. I still work very hard on every song and try to outdo myself every time.
I did one show in Chennai. There was this little kid, dressed up as I dressed in 'Blue Eyes.' That's fame for me.
Everything I wear is custom made.
It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.
Just because I take my music international doesn't mean I have to sing in English. I will continue to sing in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and Tamil. I want to represent my own country through its own languages.
I would never sing a song which I cannot sing in front of my family.
'The Xpose' was just an experiment, a small step into Bollywood. It wasn't my acting debut, as reported in Mumbai. I've done a couple of Punjabi films.
Music industry is a very competitive field, and one has to continuously entertain and excite the audience, which is a difficult task.