In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.

Some people unfortunately don't enjoy what they do at all for a living or whatever. That is unfortunate. We do always enjoy playing music.

The three of us being brought up, even though we didn't know each other in our early lives, on the same type of music, same type of environment, there's a lot of sameness there. It's three peas in a pod, if they'll fit.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

I like the cold.

They say you look ten pounds heavier on TV, but it makes your beard look longer.

Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren't allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it's a little harder to write.

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.

Today, there's so many different types of music out there that it's difficult to keep up. Things do change; it's only natural.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

Every album has its own character.

They sent us the script of 'Back to the Future III' and we wrote 'Doubleback' for it.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.

We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.

Just like any other human being is concerned about his or her personal life, I also need to think about my personal life.

Olympics is the ultimate target and I could not do well in the 2016 Games.

For all who are in love but afraid of the world you must show courage because the world has always taken time to accept all good things.

One may fall in love anytime and with anyone. One does not decide that based on caste, religion or gender.

I come from a small village.

Yeah, I am controversy's favourite child. But I am of the opinion that I come back stronger after every controversy.

I have to improve on my speed endurance, and I am working on it.

I am doing a lot of core training exercises to build and strengthen my body, spending more time in gym. I am also doing endurance training like repeating 300m, 350m races in a day. Then I also do repeat of 60m, 70m.

I will try hard to win more medals for the country and make India proud.

I prefer to train alone at SAI camp in Hyderabad. I don't train at national camp at NIS Patiala.

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

Animals in the streets have tough lives, so it's up to all of us to speak out if we ever witness them being abused.

My friends at PeTA India and I encourage everyone to treat animals with kindness and respect, just as we all want to be treated every day.

No one likes to make their personal life public.

I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.

My family has always been very supportive of me and my choice of sport.

Every family goes through ups and downs. You may want a relationship with someone, which your family may not approve of but they don't stop loving you.

Group events like cricket, football and kabaddi have private leagues, which are all being played for money. There are no such events in athletics. Everything is run by the government bodies, there's less money involved in our game, and we are not even paid as well as people in other sports.

The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of them don't even have the basic means like shoes and enough food to eat.

I think I am a sportsperson. A lot of people look up to me, so I have the responsibility to set the right example for them.

I think people will see my medals and my performance for my country and not what I do off the field. They like me because I win for the country and I will continue to do so.

My focus will always be my athletic career and winning more medals for the country.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

There are five members in my family.

As a kid, I didn't even know what non-vegetarian food is because we never had it prepared in our house.

My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.

It is the dream of every athlete to qualify and compete in the Olympics and I am no different.

It feels great to be associated with PUMA.

I am sure my association with a big brand like PUMA is really going to help me in the long run.

Every professional athlete has fear, doubts and negative thoughts. But people expect you to just ignore them and move forward.

I never stopped believing in myself. I had faith in my god.