I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
In 'Purab Aur Paschim,' there's one of the nicer patriotic scenes which is patriotic without going jingoistic. There's a scene set in a rotating restaurant, where Pran, who has left India, is completely running India down and Manoj Kumar is taking up for India. And there's that song 'Jab Zero Diya.'
It is tougher to control range on a guy who is as tall, lengthy, and busy as Amir Khan, who has a very good jab.
The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
I know who Michael Jackson is, I know who Prince is, I know the Isley Brothers, all that. Still, I got my own thing going with this music.
Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
Mick Jagger is one of the greatest athletes who ever lived, just for how much he puts into it onstage.
I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
Clive Owen would be a fantastic James Bond. Any man who does it will have to weigh his odds - whether he can get in and get out.
I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
Jamie Carragher was someone who I looked at as to how to organise, how to defend and how composed he was, how good he was at reading the games and he was one I looked up to.
Jane Fonda is someone who impressed me.
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.
From the point of view of the people who are using the platform, one of the most valuable things about Java is the consistency, the interoperability.
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
I was working with Jay Z while I was still learning how to be who I was about to become.
