"I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character."

"Japan actually is an aging population, and so as the population has aged, they have had a lot more problems with health."

"I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more."

"Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names."

"I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet."

"Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them."

"Most songs I write are spur-of-the-moment-type things. I have to be spontaneous. If not, songwriting can bore me. There is no pre-design or idea of what I am going to do when I go into the studio. It's all like that for me. I could go in and write two or three songs in an eight-hour session. You can't over-think songs. You just can't."

"There are no problems that exist in the District that have been solved elsewhere in the country. Whatever problems exist in this city exist other places."