I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.

A life without glitter is no life at all.

Sometimes it was so quiet, its frightening. It really prioritizes things.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

What I do affects others; what others do affects me.

It's a funny time, but I'm sure in any time you live in, you'd consider it funny because life is change and it'll just keep doing that. It's a matter of embracing it or not.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.