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

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.

I'm not a folk or jazz singer, more a hard-edged pop singer - with some rock, and song hooks.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

It has been shown that, in contrast to everything which classical national economy has hitherto taught, not the producer but the consumer is the ruling factor in economic life.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

Do women compete for the favours of men? Yes. They've spent 5,000 years competing.

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they cant find them make them.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.