My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back.

That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.

I think that without sushi there would be no David Hasselhoff, because sushi is like the perfect way of describing the insides of David Hasselhoff. He is like a protein, clean and easy. That's how I feel about myself.

I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

When I was a little kid, it was not uncommon for a cousin or an uncle, before they would even say 'Hello,' to gush, 'You know, your mother's brisket is just incredible; it's so good.' That was an inspiration for creating a love song in that well-worn terrain of the relationship between a Jewish boy and his mother.

When I was out of India's T20 team, I did feel sad but at the same time got tremendous motivation within myself to do well and come back in the team.