Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.