During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly.

I stopped caring what people thought.

I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.

Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventurous person. I don't look for change.

Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

Personally, I do not support the concept of suicide bombings. This is not part of our [syrian] culture. But whether you condemn them or not, suicide bombings are a reality.

When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

My music is not really about one ideology. It's not about one truth.

To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.