Everything combines for the works of Merzbow. I don't see them as being different and separate. ...Music and art is not separate. I mix rock sounds and art together .

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

When I'm not writing music, I'm playing guitar, or reading philosophy. So all I have left is just an hour or two for Claudia Schiffer.

I tried to count all the seconds that I have loved you for, but I gave up. I found it was easier to count the number of the stars in the universe.

The universe is perfect. All fault lies within the self.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.