Tell me that not everything I wrote was bad..

Women don't have an expiration date..

I respect music, I do. I love it..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular..

Nothing is 'just' anything with you.

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

Complete control can be the death of a work..

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a ….

You get dealt a hand and you play those cards the best you can..

Actors are always going to have a little bit of themselves in everything..

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they ma….

We just have to be ourselves..

Knowledge always liberates..

I'm into women. I've always loved women..

I started a band [Big Japan] for fun. These sticks break easily, but they feel good..

Knowledge makes everything simpler..

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986..

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present..

While there is time, let's go out and do everything..

Better to separate than never to marry..