“To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the”

“Yes, of course that's true but you know, the irony of all that is that before the accident, I'd pretty much lost interest in playing drums.”