Yo Yo Honey Singh

I never do any song with any expectation.

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

I'd request politicians to stop diverting attention from the actual issues that affect the country. Please stop resorting to soft targets like singers and musicians as scapegoats.

I'd never disrespect women. I have been brought up to treat women with courtesy and dignity.

Even the song that I did for Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Gabbar' is an old number. But working with Mr Bhansali was a dream come true.

I always maintained I'm a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

When I was child, I saw the 'Ram Leela' performed on stage. Now there is the film 'Ram Leela,' and its maker actually wanted me to do a song for Akshay Kumar in 'Gabbar.' Akshay was one of the first Bollywood A-listers to believe in me. We jelled before we jammed together.

We want to take boxing to the level of cricket.

It's very important to get friends on board, friends who make a difference.

Just as I have broken the monopoly of film music as being synonymous with popular music in our country, I want to prove that cricket is not the only glamorous sport.

There are many wrestlers in my mother's family. So I guess I've inherited my love for wrestling from my mother's side of the family.

I'd sing for any friend's happiness. I don't have to get drunk to do so.

All my songs depict a slice of life and how youngsters perceive it. My song 'Blue Eyes' is exactly the kind of conversation a 21 or 22-year-old guy will have with the girl he likes.

I used to be the occasional social drinker earlier. But now my intake of alcohol has ceased completely. I want to be fighting fit for the boxing ring.

I am excited to partner with American Swan and to be able to connect with the youth and inspire them to chase their dreams and script their destinies.

I thought I was passionate about my work. Then I saw Shah Rukh bhai and Bachchan saab at work. Their spirit was so infectious. I felt I had so far been just fooling around.

I am not anyone's brother, and I only have one younger sister. I don't consider my counterpart rappers as my brothers.

I'm working on an international album which will be out soon, and Lollypop is gonna be a part of it. I want to let the world know what happens when a desi song is remixed with Honey Singh's English Tadka.

After I did 'Lungi Dance' with Shah Rukh, I felt I had achieved everything there is to achieve. But then I am getting to work with Amitabh Bachchan now. And it's really the ultimate Bollywood experience for me. It really can't get any better for me.

I have fulfilled all my dreams in Bollywood. Now I have to find new dreams for Bollywood before I strike again.

I need to focus on other things before I carry on in Bollywood. I can't be doing what I've done in 'Lungi Dance' and now the song 'Party With Bhootnath' with Bachchan over and over again. I've to reinvent myself for Bollywood.

I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.

I don't want to work more. I want to do limited but good work.

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.

If you see me as a controversial artist or controversial human being, then I could be cashing in on some reality shows. I am not doing anything like that. That's not my aim.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

I am either very expensive or free for my friends.

We celebrate Valentine Day, but no one remembers Bhagat Singh birth anniversary.

My songs are based on my keen observation. I have picked these situations from my surrounding and have presented a real situation about the youth and their mindset.

When I composed a song on Bhagat Singh, it flopped. But my other songs about partying and all that are superhits!

Everyone knows it, but no one is willing to digest the fact that the lyrics comprising of slangs can also be a hit among youth.

I don't understand why people are going mad about the lyrics I write? Do they expect everyone to become Mirza Ghalib?

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.

Girls have been suppressed for long. Crimes against women are on the rise because women have the courage to come out in the open and fight the perpetrators of these heinous crimes.

I never wanted to be a performer, I never wanted to be Yo Yo Honey Singh, the rock star.

I did one show in Chennai. There was this little kid, dressed up as I dressed in 'Blue Eyes.' That's fame for me.

I was never seen with one girl in a video, right? My videos always had many girls.

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.

People are wrong when they say that there is struggle in Bollywood. That is only when you don't have the talent. If you have talent, Bollywood comes to you.

In 2011, I released my first album called 'International Villager.' I had no support, and whatever money I had made, I put it all in the album. I shot the music video for 'Brown Rang' with one lakh dollars. I spent so much money, as I just wanted to put it up on YouTube, as I knew that my market was there, and it became a huge hit.

I love my mother the most in the world. She has seen a lot of poverty and loneliness and is very simple. Whenever I am in trouble, I go far away from her, as she is not at all strong. If I see her breaking, I break.

I believe an artiste is a reflection of society. I write what I see. I am not a scholar, I am just an entertainer. I cannot change the way people think.

My dream is to take the Indian independent music scene to an international level. People like Alisha Chinai, Baba Sehgal and Daler Mehndi took it to a very high level. My ultimate target is to win a Grammy. I don't want to primarily be a Bollywood playback singer.

Nobody can replace Mika Singh; he is an amazing artiste and a legend.

I started as a music director in Punjab and then started singing.

If an offer comes my way, I would love to sing in every Indian language. It will be like an ode to my fans from every corner of the country.

For a Punjabi singer to find acceptance down South is a tall task. I'm glad I earned their love and respect.

After ten years of struggle I reached somewhere, and then I see some people pulling me down. I tell myself that if this is what singers have to go through, I would never let my kid enter this field.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

I had to work on my own to establish myself.