Article from an Italian Magazine
Where were you in these 2 years?
I've been on the top of the chart in 19 nations, then I've decided to take
time to reflect about what I really wanted to do. I've never thought to leave
music: I only wanted to look around me and clear up my ideas. My parents
come from Punjab, a rural part of India. I've been shaken by the big success
so I've come back home. My parents have a farm in north India, near Pakistan
and for me it has been like breathing pure oxygen. I've left in England my
guitar, video, books, cd, and everything about western world. I've left the
rest of the world and it has been of use. I've found again a harmony I
thought I've lost and a big inspration: in 6 months i've written 50 new
songs. It's like going to a psychoanalyst where we remember our past
to accept our present and to imagine our future. It's not purely
concidental if the single's title is "All the money's gone". In this song I
explain my return to my origin, without the superfluous but surrounded by the
essential things: a life's philosophy that I think is valid. We all should try
it: reflection, meditation,communication with the others through the music.
What are your favourite topics?
My favourite topics are the infinity space, the sensation that I'm an alien
on the earth and identifing myself in the personnage of a sci-fi
story...these are my aims, and spaceman was the prove. Today I like to work
with sound track, sound united with images. "Manhattan Martian" has been
written for "Independance Day" but I didn't finish it in time; "Chrome
Invader" was born while I was thinking about a scenography of a film about
alien's invasion, whose color is silver: my favorite colour.
Your parents have married when they were very young, it's true?
My parents, as is the custom in punjab were married aged 6 and 8. They had
to be stopped from playing before the wedding. Custom are hard to die...