I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making rec...

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.