Hikaru Utada Quotes
A Japanese/American singer, song writer, arranger, and producer.
(1983 - )
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Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.
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Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
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And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
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For cubic U I didn't know how it all got started at all.
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For me, it's an experiment to see what people are gonna think of it.
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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.
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I bought an espresso maker and coffee maker and make them myself every day.
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I can never really enjoy being famous.
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I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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I squeeze oranges every morning to make juice.
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I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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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.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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