Even as a child, I was witness to protests against a film or a play or a book. All through my growing years, I found various people or organisations protesting against something.

If you are working in the Hindi film industry, you cannot escape playing a police guy more than three times.

It is important to move on from the laurels of the past. I can't let success go to my head.

I am probably the best example of an actor who has built his career on flops.

Money is not everything.

Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - not only in producing wealth but over the whole range of human activities - that constitutes its most decisive superiority over any of its rivals.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.