In the '60s this place was changing. In the '70s it was changing. In the '80s it was changing. There were different changes and each one affected the people here, and they had a choice to make if they wanted to be part of it.

There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.

I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

It is about time that TV actors were paid as well as film stars.

I am an animated and flamboyant person. But it is being mistaken as brashness. So now I am trying to be more dignified.

Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.