Masaba Gupta Quotes

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

I think many women are successful in their professional lives - they are making the money and all that - but in their personal lives are a complete mess, because they haven't paid any attention to it, because they spent all of their time being successful.

In 'Radio,' I play Vimesh, a 34-year-old guy who solves others' problems on the radio, while he himself undergoes turmoil in his life with his wife deciding to divorce him. I think the audience will relate to the character.

As a person, I think you're always kind of searching for something or going through a hardship, whether it's your parents splitting up or anything like that. I mean, my parents stuck together, for whatever reason, until I was about 23, and then they decided to call it quits.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

I am on sabbatical as of right now, been too busy to think of about my OWN needs as of late.

Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

I don't think your personal life has anything to do with your professional life. They are separate things. Whatever is happening at home shouldn't be carried to work. Everyone has his/her own journey. Some revel in the fact that they derive that from personal contentment, and others draw it from extreme sorrow.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

Issues deals with the issues I had, the fears I had and it isn't a 'nice' album but fears and depressions are not particularly nice.

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don't want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.