Quotes About Challenges

I was simultaneously shooting for 'Manikarnika' and 'Ek Je Chhilo Raja'. In two-and-a-half months, I took 23 flights, including an international flight to Los Angeles. It was physically very challenging, shooting for both. I would catch up on sleep on the flights.

Initially, when I started working in Tollywood, there were only three or four releases in a year. But after 2010-11, the figure went up to three-four releases per month. It's impossible for one music director to work simultaneously in so many films.

You're brought up not to hit girls, that it's the worst sin, and that's what I do. But you know, gender is the last thing I think about when I'm fighting. It's the one situation where I don't think of gender at all.

I naturally have a me-against-the-world mentality, and I've been fighting it since I was 13. It's felt like it's only gotten me in lonely, angry places.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

I've had a few health issues since I left the Mansion and so fertility has come up as a big issue for me.

I'm learning every day, and I have been since the minute I became a mom.

They've been bashing me since I started making films.

I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan; I keep getting offered jobs so good I can't say no.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

It is very difficult for a South Indian to do well in Hindi films. But I have been very sincere and have put in a lot of hard work.

No doubt many people working in race relations sincerely want to make things better. But by constantly drawing attention to race and policing ordinary behavior, they risk making things worse.

I loved 'Funny Lady' for whatever reason. People say they didn't know I could sing and dance. Well, nobody ever asks me - it's always, 'Punch this guy.'

In the beginning it was very frustrating, being told girls don't sing this kind of music, and, 'Maybe you can try with pop or songs that are more romantic.'

It's just as well I can sing as I couldn't do a factory job with all these physical limitations.

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

I started out as a pop singer, then pop died down, and I had to dig my feet into Bollywood which is not something I wanted actually.

There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.

I didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.

Our music industry is male-driven. There are fewer opportunities for female singers.

When I joined the music scene, a lot of big-ticket singers were not getting good work... It was a lean phase.

I've been blessed because there are a lot of great singers out there that didn't make it past their first album.