...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

In the end, it’s all a question of balance.