Blood and death. That moves me.

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.

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

Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.

No, the horror genre is not my first love. I don't run to the theater to see horror films.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

If there was somebody I wanted to meet, I'd like to be able to get their autograph.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Practice is the best of all instructors.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.