Quotes About Author

Even at it's worst, 'Def Jam' was extremely interesting and extremely well performed. And the crowds were amazing.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

Early on, I was a performer playing classical music. It's in my DNA in a way that I can't begin to extract it.

Did I run real swindles? Oh, yeah. I mean, I started as a - on the street. I did not begin as a performer. I began running the shell game.

I have that inherent performer personality.

I'm such an emotional performer, and my head is always like a rollercoaster, so if I'm in a good place and feeling grateful, that's when I notice that my shows come across as a lot more positive.

I have never, ever met a performer that was a stickler to critical moments and moves as they fit. Savage was a perfectionist.

I'm a better writer than a performer. Everyone wants to feel like they're a bit of a polymath, and I certainly feel that.

Whether I am performing for an elite crowd or a crowd of 20,000 people - the moment someone asks for 'Agneepath,' and I respond 'Agneepath' chahiye?' the noise in the crowd, shows that this song has become huge.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

My everyday scent is a unisex perfume by Le Labo.

'Jitterbug Perfume' is one of my favorite books.

Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque.

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.

The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I'm a science geek. I even have a T-shirt with a glow-in-the-dark chart of the periodic elements.