Wish I could prove I love you, but does that mean I have to walk on water?

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.

Fear is the poison that erodes resolve. And fear is not without a killer of its own. Hope.

Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover.

The dumb-manager theory of business problems just didn't hold water for me. There had to be a deeper reason why smart people would make decisions that lead to failure.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.

You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.