I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from.

None of us don't have a vice.

I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels.

When I think of Paisley, I think of everything that has shaped my life.

The first time I did everything was in Paisley - the first time I went to the pictures or the bowling or the ice rink or the swimming baths.

Paisley offered me and my family a life, way back, and it has continued to do so.

The success was a difficult thing for me to get my head round. When it gets too much, I just have to disappear - to sort my head.

The more I watch politicians in action, it just makes me angry.

I come from Paisley, the same town as David Sneddon, who won 'Fame Academy.' When he was late for his homecoming reception in the town hall, they held an impromptu talent show. I ended up singing some songs, and that's how I was discovered.

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

Sometimes the last thing you want to do is to go on stage and bare your soul in front of hundreds of complete strangers. Singing the same songs night after night can remind you of things you'd rather forget.

All of a sudden, my picture's in the paper, or I'm making a music video, and it's still the most surreal experience. I thought you could learn, and you would acclimatise, but I really haven't.

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

I try not to get too self-absorbed.

It's all a progression towards hopefully one day making a record that can be the definitive you can offer. Some bands come in with that at first, and the great bands never really stray from that. I want to earn my stripes.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

My best mates when I was 19 were all in their 30s. I used to go to all their house parties, and they were crazier than the guys who were 17, 18. They were so much more liberated than the people who were apparently shackle-free.

I am not steeped in all that angst. I'm never going to be Sid Vicious.

Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.

When I've got time off, my feet get itchy really quickly.

If you're going to call yourself a musician, you have to go out and make music.

As I'm getting older, I work out what I want and what I need. And I just need to go home and see the people I love and write.

I know some bands that are precious about their new ideas. They're conscious of the fact that people can - even from mobile phones - begin to get clearer and better recordings of the songs... so they're a lot more hesitant to play them.

Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.

'Astral Weeks' is a brilliant album, and songs like 'Moondance' are just beautiful lyrically.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

I've never had anything as formal as vocal lessons.

I learned to sing from my mum and dad's record collection.

I was born in India… Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

I believe if the atmosphere on the set is positive, it definitely reflects on the screen. Your work becomes easy if the environment on the set is healthy and positive.

Why would any one make a biopic on me? I would have lived my life a certain way, had I known that a biopic will be made on it in future. I agree, every person's life has enough drama to be translated into a movie but I can't say the same about myself.

I've decided to get into active politics on Narendra Modiji's request. I don't know how successful I will be, but I'll give it my best shot.

The Congress had the opportunity to do a lot of good. It isn't as if they didn't have good people in the party. God knows why they failed. If after 65 years of governance you cannot provide drinking water to everyone then you should be ashamed of yourself.

I have done 'Mumbai Meri Jaan,' 'Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!;' they are not comedy. But those roles didn't stick with people. Comedy films run, even though some of them are bad films. So people see these more.

At the end of the day, my bread and butter comes from films, so I have to work in films that may not have a great script, but give me a fat pay cheque.

Theatre has a strong connect with the audience and gratifies me as an actor, but the canvas of films is huge!

There's more to Gujarati cinema than characters wearing kediya and ghagra choli and saying 'Aa ra ra ra.'

As a child, I was mischievous and an attention-seeker, so acting came naturally to me.

Performing at Prithvi was a novel experience, because unlike other theatres, it was very different - it didn't have any curtains and the audience was at close proximity to the actors.

I will never stop performing on stage.

Unlike films, theatre allows you to experiment as an actor, which is fulfilling.

I believe that people should believe people around them, they should treat each other with kindness.

If you look back on my career, I scared a lot of people with my villainous role in 'Naam.'

Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through.

I have met Sunil Dutt-ji two or three times and though I don't have a special memory of these meetings, I know that he was a gentleman and a fantastic human being.

Theatre is an actor's medium while a film is the director's.

Yes, Gujaratis are humorous but that's not all there is to them. Gujaratis are independent, determined and very hardworking.