I don't really want to force anyone to feel a specific way, but if they can keep their body and mind "floating" with my music, that pleases me.

Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was taking piano lessons with a local teacher. I began to study composition at the Yamaha school. And I continued to study there until the age of 15.

I am playing the music I love and I really play it from my heart, and whatever the out form is - it doesn't matter whether it's art or music.

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.