I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life.

Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way.

Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.