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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn’t have the opportunity to do them.

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

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

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

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

I stopped caring what people thought.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

In the beginning, I didn’t dance that much and stuff.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Until now, I’ve not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

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

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

When I was still in a group, I danced all the time, but since I went solo, I didn’t have any promotion videos where I danced at all.