In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

The question of what exactly we remember when we listen to old recordings, or whether it can be called remembering at all, becomes less and less answerable over a lifetime.

We'll when he lets his guard down he's okay. Like when he just talks without checking his words or you catch him just looking at something like... He's really looking for the beauty in it.

State is the nation socially organized.

It was never a deliberate decision to make films about the 'woman experience'.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

We got everyone's attention, but we didn't solve any environmental problems.

People will say "You must miss playing to a thousand people." But I don't. I might miss playing. That's what I would miss, but I don't miss it, because I am playing.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

Half of my success is my fearlessness and recklessness, of just seeing the end and not stopping until you get there.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.