Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

Once your career becomes about something other than the music, then that's what it is. I'll never make that mistake.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

Anderson Cooper's on-air reaction to Bob Simon's death; Wolf Blitzer personalizing his experience in going back to Auschwitz where his grandparents lost their lives - I think that has all made our air more authentic.

For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.