I'm an authentic person: I can talk about diabetes and how it affects you because I'm actually diabetic, and I know how much help a person needs, whether it's support physically or just understanding and being conscious of what diabetes really is.

If somebody asks you the same questions 25 times, maybe 2,500 times, do you still want to talk about the same thing?

How can another man call another man boss? That's like calling another man 'Daddy.'

I got cribs all over the place and offices all over the place, and sometimes I lose track of my stuff.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.

I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children.

What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.