Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

When people talk trash about me and doubt me, I just use it as motivation.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

Mercury' is about a big company exploiting a small town. There is a place in Tamil Nadu called Kodaikanal. It had a thermometer factory, which would dump the mercury into the river. This affected a lot of people. This incident is the inspiration for this film.