I have been in the industry for about 15 years, and every day has been a learning experience, thanks to changing trends and technology.

I believe that the mistakes you make in the past are learning experiences and make you grow as a human.

I grew up understanding cinema from early on and was soon cinema-literate.

Language has never been a barrier for me. I grew up learning Telugu, Hindi, and Tamil.

I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

If you're in a band for long enough, you see your bandmates at their best and their worst, and if you can stick together through that, you're basically family to each other.