I've been surprised just with the strength of the Hitachi name. I thought I would have to mold it.

Jazz is a music that is open enough to borrow from any other form of music, and has the strength to influence any other form of music.

A couple of years ago, I came up with the idea for a film that I thought could be interesting, and I took it to a couple of people - nobody professional or anything - but I thought it was kind of cool.

I thought that this was the first game that we played this year where we showed our potential.

When I was coming up, I practiced all the time because I thought if I didn't I couldn't do my best.

I knew of jazz, but I didn't like it. I always thought only older people liked jazz - you know, you had to be 19 or 20.