I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.

Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.

If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working.

My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.

Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.

Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions

All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

The dawn of beauty always comes after night.

Spring has a secret to tell us: life is for beauty and life is for joy.

A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier)

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Unless I am a part of everything I am nothing.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.

I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors

I believe, in general, that even people that are self-pitying, you can feel for them.