I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.
I am so excited to have created a line that has been inspired by my culture – showing its color, its passion and its greatness – and one that captures much of my personal style.
It’s good to follow the path of personal happiness to some extent. People tend to get upset however when you drive a steamroller down it.
It’s probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.
I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything’s tied in.
If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I’ll give the answer. I’m too open.
People just automatically say ‘If this guy is George and Barbara Bush’s son, we don’t have any question about those personal qualities that we were fooled on by Clinton.’
‘Freaks and Geeks’ was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that’s the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.