Namie Amuro Quotes & Sayings

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. — Namie Amuro

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

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

I stopped caring what people thought. — Namie Amuro

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

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

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. — Namie Amuro

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

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

My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity. — Namie Amuro

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

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

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

If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it. — Namie Amuro

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. — Namie Amuro

I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward. — Namie Amuro

I'm not completely at ease at rapping, I can't do it well yet. — Namie Amuro

People around me called me an idol, so that's what I was. — Namie Amuro

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

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular. — Namie Amuro

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff. — Namie Amuro

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didn't have time to think. — Namie Amuro

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

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

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right. — Namie Amuro

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

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning. — Namie Amuro

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance. — Namie Amuro

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. — Namie Amuro

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

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 I'm moved as well. — Namie Amuro

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