Sunny Leone influences everything husband Daniel does
Daniel said his life revolves around his wife and their children.
"She probably influences everything that I do in my life. We discuss everything -- not always as husband and wife but in terms of business as well. There is not even one aspect of my life that I don t ask her opinion on -- whether it is creative opinion or business opinion " Daniel told IANS in an interview over phone from Mumbai.
"That is the mutual respect that we have for each other. We respect each other and just want each other s thought or take on something. It has been a long time since I made a unilateral decision without my wife giving her input " he added with a laugh.
Sunny and Daniel have been together for the last seven years. They surprised everyone last year when they announced that they had adopted a baby girl named Nisha from Latur.
They sprang another surprise in March by announcing that they had expanded their family by including two more children -- sons Noah and Asher -- via surrogacy.
For Daniel embracing fatherhood has been a big but beautiful change.
"I believe I am extremely a hands-on father. For instance today the reason we are on a call at 2.30 p.m. is because at 1.30 p.m. I pick-up my daughter from school every day and at 2 p.m I read her a book and at 2.15 p.m. she takes a nap and at 2.30 p.m. I am on a call with you.
"So how has it changed me? Well everything in my life revolves around what my kids are doing."
Professionally Daniel fronts Los Angeles-based rock and roll band The Disparrows. He says he makes it a point to come out with an album after every two years.
What about cutting an album for the Indian market?
"Probably not at this time. I think it will not be authentic. I collaborate with artistes for songs in Hindi where I play the guitar. But for me to write an album that caters to this market I don t think it will be authentic enough as I don t think I am strong enough in the language " said Daniel who seeks influence from American rock and roll icons for his music.
Last month Sunny -- who started off as an adult film star and ventured into Bollywood with "Jism 2" in 2012 made headlines for starting a donation page on crowd-funding platform Impact Guru to raise money for her friend Prabhakar for kidney transplant.
Talking about the initiative Daniel said: "We are trying to help him raise money. We put out his story and we put out a fund me page. We are trying to do our best to help and it has been doing very well. People have a heart and when they hear somebody s story who is not well off they want to help."
On the work front Daniel is busy producing a movie creating content managing Starstruck managing Lust fragrance company managing a social media company.
"We do a lot of stuff. I look after all of her work too " he said.
(Sugandha Rawal can be contacted at sugandha.r@ians.in)
--IANS sug/rb/ksk