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I've spent various periods of my career being thought of as various things, various degrees of substance and ideas.

My talent is numbers.

It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

Journalists ask me all the time, 'Akshay, do you believe in the numbers game?' My standard response: 'I can't count, that's why I have producers and accountants who calculate for me. As long as I have them in my life, I don't need to worry about numbers!'

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

I've never been one to carefully calculate my career decisions, to sit on the outside looking in. I go with my passion and what moves me.

I could count my modeling jobs on my hands and toes. When I graduated from college, I moved to New York specifically to study acting, and I needed to pay the bills, and it's better to make a couple thousand dollars in one day than to wait tables six days a week.

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.