My philosophy is my learning process. Until you die, you must evolve and improve.

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

I feel responsible to make something original as a Japanese artist. There are lots of singers and guitarists, but I feel that on stage it's meaningless to copy something someone has done before.

I've wanted to be a writer since I was seven, but I didn't grow up in family where people aspired to live as writers.

As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.

I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue collar workers, and my uncle was a chemical engineer... on my mom's side, all my uncles were engineers - all ten of them.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.