Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic has lend their voice.

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

Simply, there are many things I would like to do.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think.

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I stopped caring what people thought.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante.

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.