It is male-chauvinistic industry, and there's still a long way to go for the female-centric genre to come to the fore.

People still make all sorts of assumptions about me. I've just gone past the point of caring.

I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.

Should I be offered the right kind of script, I will be doing a straight Telugu film.

I never played the game for money and attention. I love football, and I've had a blast.

Barack Obama was first elected after a period of profound failure by elite and government institutions, from finance to foreign policy to Hurricane Katrina, and his first term immediately and unapologetically enacted a flurry of government solutions.

Jazz musicians don't make any money, so I might as well make some on the market. I pick my own stocks - Microsoft, Dell - the tech stocks, the breadwinners.

The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.