My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

Love is what I give to the one I love.

Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out.

If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.