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

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.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

As a scientist, my attention became totally focused on global warming some 15 years ago by the elegant and powerful measurements of carbon dioxide trapped in ice cores taken as much as 2 miles deep from the great East Antarctica ice sheet.

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then.

We have deep depth.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith.

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.