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

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.

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.

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

Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.

But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

business is a part of my life, business is my stairway to heaven, I will be the successful businessman

...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious.

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

To live as true children of God means to love our neighbour and to be close to those who are lonely and in difficulty

Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.