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I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

Compared with other Indian film composers, I only write about six movies a year. Others write up to 60.

I'll probably always write film scores. It's the one place where a composer has almost unlimited resources at his beck and call. When music you have written works well in a film, nothing can beat it.

I've written a couple screenplays and half-finished plays.

I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song.

There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.