We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

I always begin to compose the melody first.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

It was very difficult to startle or surprise someone with a particular sound during the family computer era.

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list for the LA concert.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

Creativity is, in many respects, a response.

Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

I'm not going to stop torturing myself till I figure out the cause of my pain.

If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.