Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.

Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.

I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There’s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns.