I am a greedy artiste. Wherever I will find good stories, I will do it.
It's a thrill to see the birth of an artist.
I'm just so happy, and I'm grateful for my fans. I just hope I keep doing work that they love.
I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
There's a joy I think people feel from... my performance.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.
After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.'
I was always involved in art and when I went under contract at Warner Bros. at 18, it afforded me the possibility of never having to stop painting, never having to stop taking photographs and so on, and to actually live a cultural life.
Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.
I just want to play music with a band, live.
I think, as an artist I done conquered every way that you can go, as far as with creativeness, and directions and love, and you pissed off or, your happy.
My art completes my life.
So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
When a film does well, everyone is usually happy and grateful, but for me, the impression the film leaves upon my mind is created during the process of filming; my memories are not a reflection of critics' reviews and box office figures.
My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.
My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.
I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.
I see myself and my contemporaries being part of some good work in Bollywood.
I pick up what is offered to me. And if somebody is not offering me the right role and right film then I am not going to choose.
