I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

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

Happiness doesn't have to be chased...it merely has to be chosen.

To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.

And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

My bank is the worst. They are screwing me. You know what they did to me? They're charging me money for not having enough money. Apparently, when you're broke, that costs money.

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]