Some people associate red with love, but to me, red is for an earlier stage of a relationship. Black is much deeper, to me. It's certainly the sexiest color.

Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've been in a longer relationship. It makes me stick my chest out a little bit. It's like, 'I know what you've been through, but you don't know what it's like over here.'

I listen to all types of music, but big rock records are the ones that, in the walk-up, make me wonder, 'What's this next set going to sound like?'

I ask myself all the time, 'Why keep doing this?' If I wasn't exploring or finding something to write about that was personal or meant something, there'd be no reason. If I was ever making a record just to make a record, or ever just like, 'Just put something out there that someone will buy,' I would quit.

I get nervous playing the Opry still. You take that nervous energy and channel it into being amped.

I started thinking about this truck and why do I still have this same truck? After all of these years, why am I holding on to that? I just starting thinking about other things: guitars, boots and jeans. I just had a tendency to hold on to the things that have meaning to me.

I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life.

Seven has always been my lucky number. It's on my guitar pick; in sports, that was always the number I was, and 'Riser' is my seventh album. With this album kind of coming to an end and having seven nominations at the ACMs, it feels like a bigger story in play for me, and it's the perfect number. I wouldn't have wanted eight!

Honestly, I sleep best wearing nothing. But with kids, I've learned to sleep with underwear very close by, if not wrapped around one of my feet, so I'm ready to go if something happens.

I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

I hope fans walk away still feeling like their batteries are charged. I want fans walking away high-fiving strangers.

I hung out with Merle Haggard on his bus, which sort of freaks me out. It was him and his wife. We played with Merle in Oklahoma City. I'm from Arizona, and we talked about Arizona, and he remembered playing for two dollars a day down there at a bar.

I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.

It's hard to make music when you're not excited about it. So trying new things and going for new things is something that I can enjoy doing.

That's how I feel, oddly, when I walk on stage in front of 20,000 people, and it's crazy, the madness: I feel the most relaxed and free, and all of my worries and troubles just are gone. Just I feel the most present in that moment.

I think when we truly love something, we get the same true love in return.

I am constantly scared that I should not do or say anything that will hurt my fans.

Music is my life. If music takes a backseat, everything will go away from my life.

I am an observant. I like to observe people.

I am humbled for all the love of Indians I get from all over the world.

I am not a role model for anyone.

I will continue making music, whether or not I get opportunities in films. I know I have fans who like to listening to me sing.

I feel hockey is a tough game.

It's not like after winning an award, your job is done and you can relax. You still have to work hard.

Soorma' means someone who does something that is impossible. It's the perfect title.

I am very scared of sitting without work.

You can spread awareness through entertainment.

There is no doubt that I feel bad when a film flops, but I can't sit back and not take up new work owing to that.

I had never imagined that one day, my statue would be installed at Madame Tussauds.

When you talk of being humble, Gurdas Maan is the most humble person. He has a very pure nature.

I love working; I don't take things for granted, so I just love to do what I do whilst it lasts.

I would love to do a movie based on our desi sports kabbadi or hockey. I guess I can play these games and do the justice to them.

If I can't put my heart and soul into a film, I don't take it up.

Since I am a turbaned Sardar, I can only play Sardar roles. Either that or producers should be willing to alter the script to accommodate my physical appearance. But I won't call this a restriction.

If you're getting way too much than perhaps what you deserve, there's no insecurity. It comes up when you feel 'I expect and deserve much more but I'm not getting it.'

We are not only having a great audience for Punjabi films in north India but we are also seeing growth in other places like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Indore, etc. And the overseas audiences have always been good for us. Without them we couldn't have taken Punjabi cinema to such heights.

There have been many ups and downs but when you get that one push, it is amazing. When you go ahead in spite of some people trying to pull you back, that feeling has its own pleasure.

The same actor plays the role of a thief and a police officer on-screen. It's not fair to look for role models in them.

When we were shooting for 'Jatt & Juliet 2,' the director, Anurag Singh did not tell us that this was going to be a sequel. The only brief given to us was that, 'go and have fun on the sets.'

Akshay sir is very good at comedy. He has so much energy in him. He not only expresses with his dialogues but also his body. He is like Mr Bean.

Whatever religion you believe in, if you take almighty's name and follow his words obediently, you will be safe to an extent.

It is my good fortune that I am the first Sikh to be playing lead roles in Hindi films.

Before me, Milkha Singhji was honored at Tussauds. But his statue did not have him in a turban, so I think I am the first turbaned Sardar to be featured at Tussauds.

I don't talk about films even after I sign them because between the signing and the shooting, anything can happen. I am not superstitious, it's just that I don't like talking about a film that is not completed.

I do one film at a time. I can't wake up early. I can't do too many films.

I had heard that in Bollywood, one gets publicity without even asking for it. There are new rumours every day and the celebrities involved get disturbed.

I feel happy when people hire me only as an actor.

When I am offered a film, I don't ask whether I will be singing any of the movie's tracks.

I haven't earned much money through films.

There are so many beautiful locations in Rajasthan, so many beautiful locations in our India that have not been explored. Foreigners come and explore such places, but we fail to see those locations with that perspective.