You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Metro.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

A huge part of my writing process is listening to music as I write, almost creating an unofficial soundtrack to the film I'm working on, a sort of playlist. But the specific songs change rapidly as I write.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

I've been offered roles in Indian films, but I wanted my debut film to be from Pakistan. A lot of people think that I've made my music career from India, but that's not true. I made it big in Pakistan, and then I went across the border.

I never took creative writing.