One of the saddest aspects for me about filming in South Africa was that the real inequalities are still very much in place - and those are economic inequalities.
I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.
I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
Can you gather your vital breath and yet be tender like a newborn baby?
I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.
You dropped a 500-seat deuce on Times Square.
For the first few years I wrote jokes and performed them word for word and then wrote tags for them and did that word for word and that worked pretty well. Now, I do almost all of my writing on stage and then record and listen for any new things and then I write those down.