I am not interested in immortality but only in tea flavour.

Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments, then I worry.

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea.

I’m a politician so I only endorse myself.

Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Friend. Before Mark, I’d known its definition. Now I knew its meaning.

Blind risk is stupid, but calculated risks are worth taking.

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.

I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up.

My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.