Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

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.

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting stuck into that net.

There is no longer serious doubt in my mind that human life exists from the very onset of pregnancy.

So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

You're on your way, Jose!

The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.

Christmas to me is very much about family and the depths of winter.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

For the most important decisions in your life, trust your intuition, and then work with everything you have, to prove it right.