Japanese Quotes

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

I became a Catholic against my will.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

Think with your whole body.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was.

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.