Quotes About Transition

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

There is some confusion in my mind whether to continue to write on banking or try newer pastures.

New York was very congenial to me when I was young, like most people. I met my comrades in arms and partied hard. It's the way it should be, and then you get sick of it.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

I'm an L.A. girl, a Cali girl - a Cali girl from Connecticut.

If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.

In my last years, I was conscious how I used to play the game when I first broke through. It was absolute chalk and cheese. I probably finished at the right time. There won't be many players like me in the future.

No, I don't miss the character of Akshara, but I cherish it. I will cherish it all my life. Leaving Akshara was a conscious decision of my life, and I was well prepared. When you are well prepared, then you don't miss, but you cherish it for a lifetime.

So I've never made a conscious decision to cajole people into thinking I'm not that slacker guy from 'My Family' anymore.

I made a conscious decision when I was about 30 that I wanted to do something different with my life. I felt a little bit lost and didn't trust people, so I decided to move to America.

While I'm trying to be different, I'm trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

After Chelsea it was important to choose somewhere I was surrounded with the right people and commitment.

My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

My musical education started in the limelight, because I found myself surrounded by real musicians, but after my career had taken off.

I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.

When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.

At Carolina, I was surrounded by great players, and we felt like we were one of the more talented teams in the country. My job was to score. In the NBA, it's different.

It takes a lot of guts to pull up stumps from a successful career, surrounded by the people you love.

I moved to the States, and that was a big thing for me. I moved to Miami, and I joined the Blackzilians. For me at the time, it seemed like the best logical solution, but sometimes surrounding yourself with new people is not good.

And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that had kind of gone on surrounding this show, I think that Mitch just felt like it was time to let it go. It was best for the show.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

When surroundings change, we should also change how we make money.