Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasakiis a Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress. Hamasaki has achieved popularity in Japan and Asia by enforcing her position as an artist and not trying to be forced as a "product", which was a common factor within the Japanese music culture and Avex Trax. Through her entire career, she has written all her lyrical content, produced her own music and has sometimes co-composed her music, which is evident in her albums I Am..., Rainbow and My Story...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1978
CityFukuoka, Japan
CountryJapan
If people will listen, I will go anywhere in the world!
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.
I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.
If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.
It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music
I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.
I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.
In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.
Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason
I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes
I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome
The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days