Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

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• Usher:

  In life, you have to go through something to get to something. From that, the inspiration comes hav

• Usher:

  Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity ove

• Usher:

  I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After

• Usher:

  If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

• Utada Hikaru:

  In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I

• Utada Hikaru:

  But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

• Utada Hikaru:

  And also, I think Japan places great value on the lyrics.

• Utada Hikaru:

  Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

• Utada Hikaru:

  For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but

• Utada Hikaru:

  The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people coul