I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.

For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

There was beauty in chaos, she'd just never known it before.

Your Ego tells you that you were wronged and it validates your separation. Your Higher Self tells you that you were blessed and it validates your expansion.

What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?

In front of an audience of Protestant clergy, the Catholic JFK "was drawing strength from his vulnerability.

Any deal that recognizes Iran "right" to enrich is a prelude to fiasco and tragedy.

All that ye potentially possess can…be manifested only as a result of your own volition.”Bahá’u’lláh

To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.