In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

I said we are Ghodratis and there's nothing that Ghodratis like more than a bargain.

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

If people invited Muslims into their home every week by way of a TV show would go a long way to making people feel comfortable with Muslims and countering misconceptions about who we are. Plus, of course, that will make it easier for us to impose sharia law across America.

I grew up on American pop culture so everything that I fantasized about to get out of this sort of humdrum world of Bradford was about America. So when we decided to move there I was on the plane.

I'm not really a food connoisseur.

I was born in India - but never really lived there.