“If you release your subconscious it becomes really hard to live a social or family life.”

Nobody has the right to sit in judgment and decide what’s good or bad for you.

See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good.”

I’d like more of the world go back to being wild.

I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams.

Airplanes are not tools for war. They are not for making money. Airplanes are beautiful dreams. Engineers turn dreams into reality.

You always have to appeal to your audience.

If you’re going to retire, retire early.

I’ve never studied psychology.

To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.

AI animation is, “is an insult to life itself.

When I say ‘hero’, do not picture someone with strength to fight and conquer evil – because evil is not something that can ever be conquered or defeated. Evil is natural. It is innate in all humans.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

I don’t like games. You’re robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world more.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

I think that’s exactly why the fantasy worlds of cartoon movies so strongly represent our hopes and yearnings. They illustrate a world of lost possibilities for us.

I intend to work until the day I die.

If there’s a perfect family out there, we’re all happy for that family. But most families aren’t perfect. Most families are living with some sort of challenge or some sort of difficulty.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

I’m from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I’ve been.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

When I’m, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

My family is really proper.

I feel very lucky. My family and I have worked hard, and I feel very grateful.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.