I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

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.

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.

I have to be very original and have a strong musical voice. I don't want to be a copycat of anybody.

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'm always hungry to learn. I always look for something that I can study.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.