The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

There's no way you should try to send somebody back who came here as a child with their parents and who's grown up here in the United States. They're Americans.

It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'

I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing nothing.