I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.

I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.