I don't even possess a car. I ride in auto-rickshaws because I like to be a part of the masses. I don't want to single myself out as someone up and above.

Nobody challenges me. I challenge myself.

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.

If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

I was performing at a New Jersey high school, and I asked a class of 2,000 students, 'How many of you love mathematics?' and only one hand went up. And that was the hand of the maths teacher!