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.

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.

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?

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'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