I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

I have always been a business person.

Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.

For as long as I am your mother and you are my only child, i will worry and hope and pray for you. Do not ask the impossible.

Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.

I'm a really bad liar.

I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.

Yes, I did lock myself in my room for about two years and write some songs and things like that. But I don't feel like I missed out on a whole lot.

I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant.

Well Mandira, I hope not. You see, I started both their careers. And as far as i can remember, I started yours too.