Namie Amuro Quotes

"Actually, recording the Suite Chic album was so much fun and while working on this new album, people that I've worked with from Suite Chic have lend their voice. "

" After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do. "

" Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change. "

" During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child. "

" Even in what I eat, for example, my favorite and least favorite foods never change. "

" Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others. "

" Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. "

" For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular. "

" From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance. "

" I began to think more like a mother myself, and to become positive in my work again. "

" I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried. "

" I don't think I did anything special to make myself charismatic for these girls. "

" I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think. "

" I feel like with Suite Chic, I was able to show a lot of different things, and also that I got the closest to the kind of thing I want to be doing. "

" I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well. "

" I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. "

" I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do. "

" I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be. "

" I really like to be able be really bold and put out a different side of myself, thanks to people I trust, I think. "

" I stopped caring what people thought. "

" I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right. "

" I think I was a mirror for what they wanted to look like and how they wanted to feel. "

" I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance. "

" I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role. "

" I write songs now, I plan concerts. "

" I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet. "

" If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it. "

" If I don't think about anything, and start with a clean slate, in terms of what I have to do, a lot of different ideas come up, and I can think about things more openly. "

" If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse. "

" In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff. "

" My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. "

" Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. "

" People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was. "

" Simply, there are many things I would like to do. "

" So tunes with lower keys are increasing and I'm trying to do it with a different feel that agrees with the current style. "

" Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing. "

" Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles. "

" Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them. "

" When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think. "

" When I was still in a group, I danced all the time, but since I went solo, I didn't have any promotion videos where I danced at all. "

" When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol."