Namie Amuro
If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
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 can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet.
I write songs now, I plan concerts.
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 want to sing live, not only R&B, but pop and rock; and I hope these songs will make the album cool.
I think that I can coomunicate the lyrics most gently with ballads, and ballads are always when my feels are the brightest.
I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
I think I was a mirror for what they wanted to look like and how they wanted to feel.
I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.
I stopped caring what people thought.
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 never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
I just wanted to sing again.
I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
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 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 enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think.