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America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.

I would like to teach music. It's weird the way they teach music in schools like Julliard these days.

I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.

Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

I want to show another side of Middle Easterners. My hope is that I would be able to play a variety of parts, and not always be the guy with the accent.