Namie Amuro quotes:

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.

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 has lend their voice.

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

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

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

I stopped caring what people thought.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the beginning, I didnt dance that much and stuff.

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

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 didnt have time to think.