“You are not your emotions, you have emotions,and you can master them.”

I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

I really thought that love would save us all.

It’s better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

Music’s all right John, but you’ll never make a living out of it.

Love is needing to be loved.

It’s amazing how low you go to get high.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Happiness is inside you, not with another person.

The artist’s role isn’t to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

It’s weird not to be weird.

Tell the truth and make it rhyme.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I’d say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

Where there is pride, there is a feeling of insult.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that’s what you seem to have mastered. You’ve used silence to great advantage in the film. It’s brilliant.

Music to me is a voice, my voice, it’s my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

People who meditate develop a habit of practicing sincere gratitude which helps them in all their relationships. It is a relationship-strengthening emotion because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.