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

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 like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions weve made.

As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.

There were days when I hated politics. But I fought against hating the people on the other side because we were all in the same business - the business of building our country's future.

When someone leaves an office, often there's a series of successors until you settle on one.

You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile.

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest.

I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.

I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.

Interviewing someone is a very proactive process and requires taking a lot of agency into your own hands to get past people's general normal self-preservation mode.

Studies on cherries, raspberries and strawberries suggest that most of their nutrition is retained when they're frozen, so it's a good idea to keep some in the freezer.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

It's not hard to get people to take a premise and accept it.

If a donkey bray at you dont bray at him.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.