An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you alive in the public mind and gives a push to your older books.

My favourite authors are Jeffrey Archer, for his story telling skills; John Grisham, for the completely new genre he created; and James Patterson, for the way he created a new business model out of writing.

If evil wins in a Bollywood film, it is bound to flop. A lot of people here want to change society, so they like to read about it being changed. And that means good usually triumphs.

In India, we don't read thrillers; we read authors.

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

Books should be both enlightening and entertaining.

I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in a work environment, then why go away from it?

It is almost impossible to win back a reader's loyalty once it's gone.

I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.

In Indian companies, people aren't too worried about the pace of growth as long as you're setting up a business which will survive for years.

I find writing to be a great stress-buster.

One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony.

To make time for writing, one has to take time out from somewhere. Obviously, a fair amount of time that you spend with the family gets compromised. But my family has been very understanding and supportive.

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

I enjoy writing and promoting my books. I enjoy the feedback. But all this is because I don't depend on it commercially. I don't need that money. I have a career.

The first draft is usually junk. You have to work on it seven to eight times.

I firmly believe that there is no better thriller writer than Harlan Coben.

A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them in rapt attention, and prevent them from putting down the book.

When you write, you put your thoughts in the public space. You get both positive and negative feedback.

In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well.

We did 'The Conversation' on the Zeus network because we already are on TV and we felt like us being our own therapists could work. We tried it. We just gave it a shot since we already on blast and everybody creating their own stories about what they see. Just tried to give it a shot. Did it help? I don't know.

I wanted a woman, at first, with a classy side but with a really wild, crazy side. I wanted that because I'm wild and crazy sometimes. But that was then. Now I need less wild and crazy, like, a little bit of that element, but more class. A woman that's responsible and that wants to take care of herself.

A bad girl can emotionally make a guy feel like a girl because they break hearts, too. A bad girl is dangerous because she might be honest with you and say, 'Listen you're not the only one. I just want you to be my friend,' and sometimes that might affect a guy in a weird way.

Life is a roller-coaster, so you never know what's gonna happen.

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

I am my family. I love my family.

I've dated bad girls in my time.

I consider myself a businessman, not a celebrity or a music star. When I'm getting involved with something I need to executive produce it or be a part of putting it together as an investor. I want to play both sides. That's more important to me than just being a celebrity.

I feel like if you rush anything, it's never complete and it's never, never what you want it to be.

Ghetto isn't a place. Ghetto is more in the mind and how you feel about your life.

I love giving back to kids and helping my community.

Listen - we party, we have fun, we live life to the fullest. But we're also professional, we also wake up every day and stay on time for our meetings and we also have a structure and a certain structure and a certain substance behind the brand. It's not just luck.

I love making people dance.

Love & Hip Hop' is like the Super Bowl of reality TV.

I've been disrespectful over the years in my career because I was living a young, turnt up life. So I've said a lot of crazy things about a lot of stuff and looking back, I wouldn't take anything back, but looking forward, I wouldn't do it again.

When I started to put my eye on electronic transportation is when I fell in love with it.

The most important thing of all is that God is talking to me.

I have to grow up and be my own man and look after my own family and make sure that my wife and baby are comfortable with what I'm saying, so if that affects them, then it affects me.

An e-bike is like headphones, you can say you have patents, but people will still copy.

Watching Princess walking down the aisle... when I heard the music and I saw her come down, I lost it. I was like, I'm just gonna let it go and enjoy the love and positive emotion.

The world is moving towards renewable green energy, and electric transportation is a big part of that.

I've always invested in myself, whether it was marketing or putting an album together and paying for radio. Spending eight months to a year working on one single to try to get it where you know it's a hit and you can take it into the top 20.

I love being in front of the camera and entertaining. But I do respect women.

I tried to holla at Oprah while I was hosting a red carpet for BET. I really liked Oprah at the time, and I asked her to dance and she said yes. I was giving her the eye and she just thought it was cute. I was young, but I was confident. I was saying stuff in my head but the words were not coming out of my mouth.

I'm the type of person when I come to town and have a great time and I see a dream or a vision, I go for it immediately.

I love Instagram and Facebook.

I like Will Smith because his acting is for real.

My shades is on all day because my future is so bright, so I'm happy.

I would never leave my baby and my wife. I would die first before I leave them on the side of the road.

It was very important to me to create something that would create a legacy. I wanted to do something that had the ability to earn billions of dollars - like really had the ability to do that.