You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I have ideas in mind, things that I'm working toward. There have to be goals; there has to be a challenge. Just playing, in and of itself, is great. But there has to be some motivation to it.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

At no point was my career under threat, so I always knew that I would get back into action.

When I told my father that I wanted to join the film industry, he asked me if I was sure about it, as acting is a very insecure profession. He also asked me if my reason to join the same profession like him was to have an easy road. I said no.

For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.

In my career, I thought I've never wanted to get anywhere in particular. I just wanted to work with interesting people on interesting projects.