I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Blood and death. That moves me.

you are my life... and my life is yours..

My death granted immortality.With one look, I knew he’d be my undoing…” Forgotten, book #1 of the Fate Trilogy

To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.

I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things.

Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

A masterfully written text for the M&A student and professional: clear, concise, comprehensive, practical, and insightful.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Sometimes I attract roles that are necessary either for personal growth or enlightenment.

A light wife doth make a heavy husband.