Satisfying yourself requires challenges because when you come to a certain point, you're not happy anymore. You don't feel happy with the way you pla….

I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know wher….

Some artists just go and play, and I have no objections to that - but I don't like to do that. People take their very precious time to come to my con….

For the piano and me it is always a blind date! I meet different pianos every single day. I can't take my piano with me like a bassist can take his i….

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't..

A child isn’t born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let’s just say that when I realized that I didn….

The really strong key thing always comes direct to your heart. Even if it's a visual thing it doesn't come to your eyes! Even if it is a listening th….

For me I always need to have two sides to me when I play! I need to be a performer and at the same time the producer. So I need to be somewhere up in….

I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world..

My biggest musical dream is to keep playing all my life. There's nothing bigger than that and that's very challenging because you have to satisfy you….

I, on the other hand, still might not be considered a proper adult. I had been very grown-up in primary school. But as I continued through secondary ….

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself..

Once I meet the piano, I have no other choice, because I need to have a good date right! So I am trying to please the piano to have the best outcome..

It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended a regular elementary school, and I was….

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states..