I feel very happy that the society has matured and parents have opened up to their girls studying more and becoming working professionals and becoming bread winners for themselves.

I have no issues with any co-star of mine, male or female.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

I am an only child, so not only my father, even my mother is also very supportive of my career.

My parents gave me the gift of love and support. They told me never to question what my heart wanted and to be proud of who I was as an individual.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

A person sets out to write a poem for a variety of reasons: to win the heart of his beloved; to express his attitude toward the reality surrounding him, be it a landscape or a state; to capture his state of mind at a given instant; to leave - as he thinks at that moment - a trace on the earth.

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.