Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum..

The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration….

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan..

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long..

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all d….

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds..

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over..

I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulatio….

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it..

I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wante….

Blood and death. That moves me..

The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you ca….

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums..

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation..

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and gui….