Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

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

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days

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

I don't know my future. I don't know about tomorrow. I can just control for today or present, right now. I don't want to think about future too much, because present is most important for me.

If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!

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.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Everyone has a secret. Right? Of course I have a secret. I think maybe you too?

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

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

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

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

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 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 way I wanted to.

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

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

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

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.

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

Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason

I can't write a lie; the world of imagination is no good. I objectively capture my own experiences and those of my friends. I want to put true feelings into words. If I make a song when I'm sad, it's a dark one, but I think that's good. No matter when I want to be true to myself.