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We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.
Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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 guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.
Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.
Blood and death. That moves me.
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
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 wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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 manipulation and it plays like instruments.
I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
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 doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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