As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

Only the soul knows its sorrow.

Desire speaks, passion shouts, lust screams, and love whispers.

There are raw materials undeveloped burning inside you but need a platform to materialize and manifest.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

I want to tell you that I think this war is a great mistake.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.