People have made me so big now, which I never thought I can be as a female singer.

Going out with friends for a nice dinner and then attending the midnight mass are some of the memories I cherish.

I will give full credit to the 'Indian Idol' platform for grooming me as a singer and shaping my career.

Singing from the heart is my only goal.

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

I say to a lot of people you have to measure success in terms of progress, not in terms of end state.

The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.

At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what's really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we've done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.