It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.
During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.
Creating a decent pop song is a challenge - and occasionally, once in every decade - it's kind of fun to do that.
I'm obsessed with books.
I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.