I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.

The world is in motion, as it seems.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

It's just that, when I'm in Japan I could foretell to a certain degree what would be accepted, so I certainly don't come up with any crazy arrangements.

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.

The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

When people ask me exactly how much time I spend in each country, I always tell them I have no idea.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

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

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if someone's tape recording what you say.

Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!