Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Western films don't do very well in India.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

The race is long but in the end it is only with YOURSELF.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.

I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.

All good, clean stories are melodrama, it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

Trust yourself that you can do it and get it

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I'm just trying to do my part before I get hit by a bus.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

Iran would do well to look at the calendar and realize there's a new president in the Oval Office. And Iran would do well not to test the resolve of this new president [Donald Trump].

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

Imagine if the United States, in its war against Hitler, had said to Stalin: we don't want your support until you make your country democratic.

When you run in places you visit, you encounter things you'd never see otherwise.