I had a couple of releases including Dil Ka Rishta,' Koi Mere Dil Mein Hai,' Madhoshi,' and Julie,' but they were badly released and went unnoticed.
Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
I always said if a man would have done half the records that I've done, we would know about it. But we don't know all the records I've done for other artists.
I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work.
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.
I watch many, many, many independent films every year that you see once in a film festival and they're never heard of ever again. Many of them are very, very good.
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
You see a player come through from nowhere every now and again and getting a top club. It shows there are players out there.
I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.
I tend to stay away from the big tourist traps.
Some of the films I've been most happy with have been the films that don't see a lot of traction.
Pico Union is an underrated part of L.A., and not a lot of people go unless you live there.
A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.
I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.
