How does MINDEF intend to reduce uncertainties, enhance understanding, and improve coordination in the region and beyond through defence diplomacy apart from conferences and meetings?

Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light.

Everything means nothing to me

You're either recording a hit song or you're not; you've either got something that's worth recording or you haven't.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Vice is its own reward.

Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

I'm not Metallica, you can tell that I'm really not that angry in most of my songs.