What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

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.

Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.

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

The only way you can better John is by copying him exactly.