The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

Blood and death. That moves me.

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

I'm an old guitar player who has fallen into television and is so happy he did.

Actually, I tossed it nicely, landed nicely, like airplane. No warning, beautiful. That's the art of throwing racquets.

I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more.

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.