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

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.

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.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

If there's one person in the world you should be with, there must be one person in the world you shouldn't be with.

You have a great potential.Explore your special skills.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.

One thing I like about trying to write is that I can possibly write myself a role. Otherwise, you're at the mercy of whatever roles are out there that people are willing to give to you.

It is boring to have all the answers. Only political people have answers.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker