You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing.

It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting.

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.

I'm not in for killing another man, defending my holy land, as if there's a god who would understand.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.