My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship.

I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

The music that I have learned and want to give is like worshipping God. It's absolutely like a prayer.

'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is another name of Shiva, one of the holy trinity god that we worship.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.