Everybody improvises without noticing it. Life is about improvising. You can't control what happens in your life, I mean, you don't know what can happen in your life today. So you somehow improvise.

I have always liked black and white! It is simple and the colour of the piano.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

The way to respect all the people I love is to eat the music, have it in my blood and bones, and try to explore it in as much different ways as possible to create my own identity.

Every day is different and improvised. Sometimes, a song can lead to a completely different adventure. You can't control it.

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

Work hard! Just keep working hard until you can do something you want to do! We all progress at different speeds and in different ways, so be patient and keep working hard!

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

Everything is inspiring! It could be fine art or a conversation I have with somebody!

To be nice to people and make them happy - that's my philosophy in life.

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

We’re all ridiculous… all of us. It’s as though we use a lit torch to search for light. You are enough. Know this and proceed through life accordingly.

It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.

People who ask "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice, did ya there buddy?

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen: even less, the trouble I've successfully avoided.

Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!