"Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down."

“My musical career was an accident.”

Source : "The Pop Life; 'Diamond Life,' Sade's Debut Album" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 1985.

“People who don't know me, when they see me they kind of step back and just stare at me and say, "Dang, he's a big dude." True fans and guys who follow the sport, they know who I am. But sometimes I do get those people that look at me and kind of stop and just stare at me, which I hate.”

“Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.”

Source : "Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus on Barack Obama’s slum lord problem, and global warming, Indian style". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. July 2, 2008.

“Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.”

“If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.”

“By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.”

“It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers.”

“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.”