Quotes About Versatility

I can play on the right, from the left, behind the main striker, or upfront - it depends on where the coach wants me to play.

I think I've shown I have the defensive discipline to play deep as the No.6 and start the build ups with my passing. I can also play higher up the pitch and make a difference in the opposition area. Being able to do both has helped me to play so many games.

I always admired Frank Sinatra. He had ups and downs, but he didn't give up his style. He had what might have been a tough life or character.

If I want to do an orchestral record, if I want to do an acoustic record, if I want to do a death-metal record, if I want to do a jazz record - I can move in whichever direction I want, and no one is going to get upset about that. Except maybe my manager and my record company.

The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd be making.

It's very important to not repeat yourself. After 'Delhi Belly,' I was offered 40 'Delhi Belly's and you can't do that! So 'Revolver Rani' is dark and gritty with action, 'Sooper Se Oopar' is a big commercial love story, 'Santa Banta' is a 'theth' Punjabi comedy, 'Golu Aur Pappu' is a kids' film and 'Amit Sahni Ki List' is an urban romcom.

I worked with different producers from all genres, trying to bridge different styles of music, from urban to electronica to ballads.

I'm a producer first, and I know music, so I can jump on any song, whether it's pop or urban, without changing me. Whatever I do, I'm gonna make it classic.

I don't put myself in any box or say that I can't work on any kind of music. I'm not just a producer that only makes urban music.

When I do music I don't think about urban music, pop or country, I just think about a good song.

Probably I look different in different get-ups, so I can pass off as an urban and rural character, hopefully with the same kind of conviction.

I can manage in six languages - Marathi and Gujarati, in addition to Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bangla.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Different styles work for different guys... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.

I refuse to be typecast, and I'll have a go at anything so long as it's different, challenging, hard work and demands great versatility.

Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

In both life and work, stay flexible. Whether in a country, a company, or a family, the same holds true: Dictatorship and rigidity rarely work. Freedom and elasticity do.

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.