I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.

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.

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

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 great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.

It's really boring to talk about what you ate and have 48,000 fans listen to you. It's awful.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because... The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

And whiter grows the foam, The small moon lightens more; And as I turn me home, My shadow walks before.

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.