I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues ...

It is a gude tongue that says nae ill.

A sharp tongue is the only edge-tool that grows keener with constant use.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

A sharp tongue cuts itself.

Out of some little thing, too free a tongue Can make an outrageous wrangle.

Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.

But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.

The blow of a whip raises a welt, but a blow of the tongue crushes bones.

... the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!