I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

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.

You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

You're talking to someone, to a reader, and you get to express in the way you want to. And you get to play with it. It's kind of like acting, but it's on paper.

Men see what they are most afraid of.

It's hard, sometimes, when nothing's stopping you, to know what's stopping you.

Culture is another dimension.

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web.