Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.

If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The subcontinentals were the last ethnic minority to gain citizenship. You assimilate. My name was too hard. They said, 'Shad is what we are calling you.' You go with the flow.

You balance sport and business by having a sustainable model for a club and by winning. Because winning makes people feel better.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.

I'm so hands-on and involved in my own music that I feel like if I put the same effort into another artist, then I can definitely cultivate something great.