I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

I make most of my friends through my extracurricular activities.

Kissing is much easier than smoking.

I do lots of activities. I hang out with friends.

I always try to read at night, because it gets me kind of tired.

My style is constantly changing.

I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.

Some things are worth the splurge.

I have a Twitter, but I'm not a tweeter... if that really makes sense.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can't find anything.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down.

The visible becomes inevitable.

Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today.

Life will pay any price you ask of it.

This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.