Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics.

Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.

Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

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.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.