I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

I love wine tasting in Napa. I don't have a huge collection, but the bottles I do have are special.

I don't need to worry about being idolised.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through...

Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

For exercising, you need to maintain your nutrition and proteins, and I'll usually eat some chicken breast, a lot of greens, maybe some milk, and some fruits. Then I just thought to myself, Why don't...

I think I can work with any type of actor.

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

Some of my contemporaries don't want to talk about the female problem because they feel like whenever they get a teaching position or an award, we are just being pinpointed, fitting into the model.

I have listened to different kinds of music since I was young.

Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

My father was, like, the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

Endangered species are our friends.

I finished my high school. I think education is very, very important.

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

At primary school, we would pick up plastic petals on the way home to make flowers. Now you might call it child labour, but we did it for pocket money.

When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.

In the beginning, I thought mobile search was not much different from Web search. It's just a smaller screen, a slower speed; it's all the bad things. When I thought about mobile Internet, it's all...

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain...

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

One of the founding tenets of racism: a society that will never allow white people to think that because they are white, they won't succeed.

I don't care about writing really.

It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

I'll put every cent that Wanxiang earns into making electric vehicles. I'll burn as much cash as it takes to succeed, or until Wanxiang goes bust.

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.

China has made important contribution to the world economy in terms of total economic output and trade, and the RMB has played a role in the world economic development. But making the RMB an...