I never had lessons. Used to try to play to records, which I hated doing. Still can't play to them.
Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.
On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.
Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone!
If we stay in one place, we will become outdated
Engineering is not quite as important as imagination.
If you do the same thing as others, it will wear you out. Nintendo is not good at competing so we always have to challenge the status quo by making something new, rather than competing in an existing market.
Change has to come for life to struggle forward.
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me. . . and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud. . . You cannot fool an audience.
If you ask anyone, what is morality based on? These are the two factors that always come out: One is reciprocity, … a sense of fairness, and the other one is empathy and compassion.
I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.