One way of looking at Freedom....

When I travel the world to play my gigs, people in the West sometimes say to me, "Singapore is a successful and nice country but there is no freedom there."

What I say to them is, "I don't know what you consider freedom to be, but to me, freedom is the ability to walk on any street and almost every back alley in Singapore at any time of the day or night and not get bugged."

I prefer that kind of freedom to the freedom of being able to say anything you like, whether its fair comment or not, without consequences, and then feel unsafe to walk around many places in your home city....not to mention the strong smell of urea wafting onto the main street of some of the biggest capital cities.

Of course I think we can continue to grow and expand in various areas like freedom of expression, but not at the expense of the high level of personal safety for each person, which we have in Singapore.