Quotes About Adaptation

But I can say that the business has changed drastically since I started at 8 years old. Everything from the way you tour to how you make a record and how you release the music.

The lockdown, in general, left me with a sense of needing to become more independent and instead of being intimidated, I decided to do the engineering on some of my new releases.

I am a horror to work with for any singer. At first, no one will like to work with me, but it changes once the song releases.

I was very excited for 2020 since I had two Bollywood releases to look forward to but then the lockdown happened.

You're never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it's like, 'I'm an artist, I'm trying to grow. I don't want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!' Same thing for a martial artist.

As I am a Bengali and am used to conversing in Bengali and English, I thought my Hindi would show an accent.

My Hindi was not very good, but I guess people liked my accent and gave me Hindi roles.

I am looking forward to doing roles in Hindi films but have to watch my step.

My Hindi remakes are better than my originals except sometimes, the Malayalam actors perform better.

Tamil films have to be faster than a Malayalam film but not as fast as a Hindi film.

Most of Hindi films I made are remakes of my own films.

Many times, I thought the sat-phone was just a hindrance because it can become a crutch. You can call someone in Australia or Europe and talk about what you're going through, but it doesn't actually help. Sat-phones and GPS can't show you where the grass or the wells are.

Somebody once asked me, 'What do you do?' and I flippantly answered 'I'm a cultural engineer.' With hindsight, I kind of am - but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn't work.

By the time I'm 75 and I have a new hip, and my eyes are laser cleaned of cataracts, I wont think I'm a bionic man. I think that's just how technology works. The posthuman future of humanity will not announce itself; it will just creep up on us.

Hip-hop has always been evolving.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

Hip-hop has never had boundaries - the more adventurous it is, the more popular it seems to be.

You've got these guys that have this fresh, street, hip-hop country that sells a zillion. Keep doing that. I'll keep doing my stuff. We'll see how it goes.

I think people just have to realize that music grows, and hip-hop evolves. I mean, everything evolves.

I'm not in that state of mind that I was back in '86 - hip-hop is not in that state of mind that it was back in '86. Times change. I change.

I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.

I didn't fit in on any level when I moved from Brooklyn to Burbank - on any level. And then I met a bunch of hippies, and I became a little hippie myself. A Brooklyn hippie.

I feel I could come out of the routes better, but because of the hips, I don't come out as well as I can.

People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.