Sunny Leone influences everything that I do in my life: Daniel Weber

“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.