"Success is all about having choices"

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Javed Akhtar

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What does success mean to you?

Success is living life to its full throttle and doing things on your own terms and conditions. It’s simply about having choices. Again the term is relative. For instance, you want to be somewhere and the moment you reach the place, you feel it was the path instead of the destination and success lies little ahead. It’s a mirage that keeps beckoning.

What is your biggest strength?

I believe whatever I say will sound pompous. So let others decide what is my strength and my weaknesses are. It’s not me who decides.

What’s your stress buster?

I talk to people who have a sense of humour, or are interested in poetry, can indulge to banter. When I don’t find anyone I listen to music. I am not a puritan. I like listening to all kinds of music, ranging from Indian Classical, Western, light music, Western classical, rock, pop... Listening to rock helped me in writing the lyrics of Rock On!!. While the tune can be related to the sex appeal of a particular song, lyrics are the temperament of the song. One can at first get attracted to the sex appeal but to stay longer with the person would require a proper temperament. Tunes will give you an immediate stir but the words will live with you forever.

God to you is?

God is a concept. People worship their ignorance and name it as God. Today there are only two destinations where God exists — space and death. Once upon a time God used to be trees, clouds, floods and diseases. No more.