Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

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.

People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary, it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.

I've never really been a fan of violence.