You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

I like to cook Indian food when I can. I find the process of creating a home-cooked meal to be unwinding.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

I've always been quite psychic and believe there's a reason why things happen and that we need to learn from them.

My mother told me not to listen to anyone. She had been told that she wouldn't be able to teach and she did.

I feel like I have one foot in New York, one foot in London and one foot in India. But it's important to me to invest time with family.

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!

I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.

And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of The Good Wife.

Let us remember to always rediscover one anotherbecause we are forever changing.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life

The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

I think there's a lot of power in admitting that you don't know everything.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.