Basically I write songs, and I need for there to be a home for these songs.

I'm a massive pessimist.

I ended up living in fear for most of my childhood.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

People in Mumbai are not really into Punjabi music, whereas those in Delhi and Gurgaon love Punjabi numbers and are totally into the peppy music.

I refer to myself as 'we.'

I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music...

The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.

It's very hard to behave naturally when you know people recognise you. On the other hand, I still sometimes get upgraded in hotels because someone used to like me back in the day, which is still...

Just because you listen to The National, Spotify might tell you that you want to listen to The Lumineers' music. Well, maybe you don't.

Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.

I concentrate more on inner beauty because when I worry too much or think negatively, it shows through my skin.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

It was really important for me to understand that I needed to provide for myself, and I needed to become a provider for my own family, too.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I love songwriting, and rap is part of my songwriting, but I'm not a rapper.

Bappi Lahiri has an image that the public wants to see.

Everybody has flaws, and every country has flaws. But you can still love something even though you know it's been so wrong before, and sometimes is now, and probably will be again.

I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

Strength of 100 men? I'd probably just get mad and hurt somebody and end up in jail. I think invisibility would probably be the best thing. I could be like, 'You know what, let me just see what these...

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I've always been in basketball. If you need a PG I'm your man.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.