Quotes from Namie Amuro


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


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.


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.


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


I stopped caring what people thought.


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


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


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


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


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


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