I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor.

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

এ ভুবনে ডুবল যে চাঁদ সে ভুবনে উঠল কি তা?হেথায় সাঁঝে ঝরল যে ফুল হোথায় প্রাতে ফুটল কি তা?এ জীবনের কান্না যত― হয় কি হাসি সে ভুবনে?হায়! জীবন এত ছোট কেনে?এ ভুবনে?

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more.

It's terrible to know that no matter how you try to help your child, his condition will worsen.

No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.

There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.