I am shy. People misconstrue it as arrogance.

'Damadamm!' is a sweet comedy, and there is always room for watching a feel-good entertainer on Diwali.

The music of 'Damadamm!' will be released by my company, HR Musik, and you will find a completely different Himesh in every song.

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

I took a break from doing music to concentrate on acting.

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

I knew that I couldn't afford to go wrong with the music of 'Karzzz.'

I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched octaves, some notes may slight get in touch modalities with nasal, and that doesn't actually mean 'nasal singing.'

I worked for a year to get into the right shape for 'Teraa Surroor.'

'Radio' was made at a budget of Rs 6 crore. Thankfully, the money invested in making the film was recovered through music.

Pooja Bhatt is a very good director.

I took advice from Salman Khan, getting health tips because he is my mentor, and I take his advice for everything I do from Salman bhai. He has given me a lot of tips on body building because he was the first person to start the trend of fitness in the country.

I love Bollywood, I love films, and I like to push myself, which motivates me to work harder.

I don't have the temperament of being a director.

It was a little difficult for me to get six pack abs because I wanted to get them naturally without taking any supplements, and thus it took about three times the usual time.

Your mind and soul must be completely involved in your work all the time. This is how you will achieve success.

Never take your critics lightly. You must always try to win them over by your hard work. Don't brush them off.

Nowadays, everyone is sporting a tattoo, so the uniqueness of having one is gone unless you have an original tattoo.

I know kids who participated in reality shows and became a superstar over time without singing for films, because the opportunities are wider besides films.

When my films didn't work, I wondered what was wrong in my acting graph, and then I realised the dedication I had for music, I didn't have the same for acting.

This whole game of hit and flops will always be there and I have survived because I am hit. I think industry works on hit and flop.

I eat four times a day. The evening snacks are a must.

Just praise is not enough; you've got to get work to survive.

I had never dreamt of acting.

I love challenges, as it breaks the monotony and takes me out of my comfort zone.

Comedy is one genre that I really want to come my way because I was loved for my funny character in 'Khiladi 786.' So, if approached with a good script and good songs, I will certainly take it up.

Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.

I am neither hurt nor disturbed by the occasional backbiting and criticism from my colleagues. By and large, the music industry has been very supportive.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

Like all novelists, I'm interested in the filters between reality and the imagination.

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

Gaddafi's ability to have survived so long rests on his convenient position in not being committed to a single ideology and his use of violence in such a theatrical way.

Language is not just a code; you are writing into its history, into its tides.

Turgenev's achievement lies in how he succeeded, in spite of himself, his country, and his time, in exempting his work from public duty. This has given it that unnameable quality that makes every sentence true, every silence trustworthy.

Ivan Turgenev's novella 'First Love' is one of the most perfect things ever written.

Dreams have consequences.

In the end, madness is worse than injustice, and justice far sweeter than freedom.

When I was 12 years old, living in Cairo, my parents enrolled me in the American school. Most of the Americans there appeared oddly stifled, determined to remain, if not physically then sentimentally, back in the United States.

Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety.

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than learning a new language. You lose your confidence. You want to disappear. Not be noticed. Say as little as possible.

My family settled in Cairo in 1980. I was nine. I missed Libya terribly, but I also took to Cairo. I perfected the accent. People assumed I was Egyptian.

I admire Turgenev, Camus, Proust and Shakespeare, but I've also learnt a lot about writing from composers and artists.

Like most dictators, Col Gaddafi detests the metropolis. His vision of Libya is a kind of Bedouin romantic medievalism, suspicious of universities, theatres, galleries and cafes, and so monitors the cities' inhabitants with paranoid suspicion.

It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform to speak about my father's abduction and Libya's human-rights record.

The space where writing happens is a unique space that's hard to define, and when you're kicked out of it because you're travelling or distracted, it seems so elusive and hard to defend because you yourself doubt whether it existed.

The laws of the lowly gangster govern Qaddafi and his sons.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.