Game Boy is something that I would like to make something for.

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.

You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It's you who makes me a person.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

He who has loved often ... has loved never.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

Every performer wants to sing live. That's what I live for.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.