The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

Isn’t it time to start giving yourself the great gift of your own love?

One thing you have to realize from now on is that it doesn't matter if this is a dream or not. Survival depends on what you do, not what you think.

I would be no more than a shadow of myself if I thought that I had truly lost you.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am.

I love fashion. Over the past year I've got heavily into it.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.

I've been around the movie business, so I can play it cool and all that, but when people are different they have that off thing about them. Their whole presence is just a little innocent, I think.

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.