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

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.

By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

I have done things politically, and I've been running a business at the same time, but I sort of joke that to some extent I do more than most legislators have done in their whole careers, and I've been doing it as a part-time job.

I hate wasting people's time.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

I want to spend more time with those kids. I want to dedicate my time to train those kids and teach them what it takes, what they need to do to get to this level.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge.