You cannot become a master until you actually take the leap, do the work, make several thousand mistakes, and live to tell about it.

There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

Few artists are able to accurately assess just how valuable and great their work is - or how much it will be appreciated by its audience. In other words, insecurity is the name of the game.

How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?

There is probably no greater anxiety in life than going home to visit your mother for Christmas.

Choose the paths which are not worn out by many feet!

Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.

Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.

Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work.