Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way.

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

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