What's good about many people liking the work is that when I want to collaborate or am interested in the synergy of artists working together, nobody ever says no to me when I ask to work with them.

You can tell if it's a good collection if people are afraid of it. In ten years, everyone will love it.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

I've always said that growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

For me, creation can only come out of a certain kind of unhappiness. They say in Japan, this thing like the hungry spirit - the hungry mind - is what gets you going forward.

I work in three shades of black.