What type of person is Miyavi? Find out in this special
interview where we tackle into his amazing world.
>>Hi Miyavi-san. How are you?
MIYAVI: Hi. Uh...I'm not doing so well, I have a little fever.
>>Is that so?
MIYAVI: When I was invited to do this interview last month, I've been thinking
about it ever since. I only thought of the interview, it really "invaded
my mind."
>>Really? I remember now, and you said very plainly "Sorry for thinking
so much."
MIYAVI: "pu pu pu" is the type of laugh that makes people hate you
*laughs* But I got comments from my fans through their letters, "Miyavi
doesn't know but I know him very well." I recieved a lot of weird letters.
When I read them, I think "Ah~this is what the fans sent me" I feel
happy but also agumentative. But I can't argue with them because my teeth aches
*laughs* Can I please borrow part of the interview to file my complaint?
>>Yeah yeah *laughs* This is a special edition, so I really have to thank
you. I plan to send out this special feeeling also.
MIYAVI: I think I have a little fever, even if it's not that high.
>> I don't mean that. I'm really sorry *laugh* But you really feel that
way, huh? *laughs* You're appearance in this magazine last month was the first
time so there're a lot of people asking, "Who is Miyavi?" So this
time we're trying to decipher, "what type of person is Miyavi?" So
I'm going to ask you about things you're attached to, onegaishimasu!
MIYAVI: Basically I'm an honest and serious person.
>>People would normally describe what type of person they are not just
say that they're honest and serious.
MIYAVI: I just say whatever I think *laughs* I want the readers to know, that's
my intention.
>>Mm?? What do you mean?
MIYAVI: For example in rocks-papers-scissors, if we knew that the other person
would play scissors, then we know to play rocks. I plan to play rocks but the
other person is thinking this way too, so they play papers. So I play scissors
and I win. Up to this point I want to say that I "feel so proud."
>>Because of scissors, rocks, and papers? This is really simple *laughs*
Do you have to be "honest and serious"? You have to be yourself don't
you?
MIYAVI: Yeah, be yourself *laughs*
>>*laughs* Then let's begin.
@ ATTACHED TO FASHION:
MIYAVI: I can say plainly that my fashion is "no fashion" *laughs*
I've been in Tokyo for 4 years but during those 4 years I've bought my own
clothes only once.
>>Eh? You wear the same clothes over and over again?
MIYAVI: Aa~wait wait. I'm not that dirty of a person *laughs* I recieve a lot
of clothes from my fans which is why I don't really buy clothes. Nowadays I
wear jeans, but I used to wear leather pants. That's all I'd wear *laughs*
>>Is that so? What other things are you attached to other than that?
MIYAVI: Actually I don't really want to talk about "my
characteristics." I want to attach to things and pretend that I don't.
"Looking attached without be attached." I think that's cool, it's
really a cool thought.
>>Another complicated thought *laughs* But I get what you're trying to
say *laughs* But when did you stop wearing leather pants and started wearing
jeans?
MIYAVI: I don't really wear leather pants because they tear easy. So I started
wearing jeans *laughs*
>>Aa, really? *laughs* Then what would be the first thing to buy with
your money?
MIYAVI: Probaly opportunities.
>>Oh, just the way an artist would think.
MIYAVI: That was cool right? That was cool?
>>"That was cool right?" Do you really have to ask? *laughs*
MIYAVI: I don't know *laughs*
>>Then on to the next one.
@ ATTACHED TO FOOD:
MIYAVI: Food that I'm attached to? *worried* Is there any? Probably not. I can
eat the samething everday and be fine with it. I think that's how it is. When I
go shopping, I would buy food that I can eat everyday.
>>What do you like to eat?
MIYAVI: Right now I'm not eating rice (I'm not sure about this part. Because in
Thai, the phrase "eaing rice" refers to eating any meal. So it could
mean that Miyavi isn't eating rice, or that he's not eating anything at the
moment -D.T.) but other food would be gum. It's sticky and it tastes the best,
and it'd stick to my teeth *laughs*
>>Is it (okay the word here has three different possible interpretations.
The first is that it can mean that the taste is kind of bland and bitter, but
Miyavi says that it's delicious so maybe that's not right? The second one is
astringent, meaning that it stops cuts from bleeding or it can make the skin
less oily. But that's really weird O_O The third one is to translate it as "did
I hear it right?" But to make that work it needs a prefix, so maybe not.
Miyavi's answer doesn't help much so...just interpret it whichever way you want
^O^" sorry =S....-D.T.) bitter/astringent/did I hear it right? *laughs*
MIYAVI: Yes, but this year gum is really popular. I've already checked. You
should go check too.
>>Mmm...Then I will.
@ ATTACHED TO WRITING MUSIC:
MIYAVI: This is something I'm attached to but it's not something I want to be
seen as attached to *laughs* But being attached to it is concrete right? If I
was asked that, I'd probably have difficulty answering, because I feel that
that it's not concrete. The songs I've written up to now are weird.
"Children who stay in one place don't go back home" I would make my
songs with that kind of feeling but it seems like I can write a variety of
songs. Mm, I'm thinking of changing it but it's hard. Ther are times when I
write songs I would attach to the wrong things, you know. I don't think I'm attached
to just one thing (I guess he means that he's not consistent..?-D.T.) Aa, but
my room seems to be that way. But if there's a hole I would turn into an
extremely anxious person, I would feel anxious about that too. If there're
holes in my songs I would probably hate it.
@ WORRIED ABOUT GOING TO THE HOSPITAL:
>>When you go to the hospital, do you get worried "while you're
going" there?
MIYAVI: Sometimes, yeah. I'm not the type to get prepared before going to a
hospital. Little cuts and bruises, I would just endure it, I won't go to the
hospital. But if I'm in a real tight spot, I would probably tell. *laughs* But
it's not something to laugh about. When my teeth aches, if I had to say where
did it ache, it seems that it would ache because of miso. I can't tell where
does it ache inside. Top or right, because the pain just comes and go. It's
odd. That's what happened when I went to the doctors.
>>But I don't understand what we're talking about at all *laughs* Even
though your lyrics seems to be about general topics, it doens't end normally.
But either ways, you stop and you mix, it's all just kidding right?
MIYAVI: Aa, no~what I say is natural, it's what is inside of me. I dont' know
about the High Society. I'm from the countryside. *laughs*
>>"Went to see the doctors" What did you mean by High Society?
MIYAVI: Aa, yes, what? I think I did something crazy *laughs*
@ ATTACHED TO PIPES (smoking pipes)
MIYAVI: Nowadays I would always have a pipe in my mouth. Since I became
attached to it, I feel that "I've found something good." I met it
(pipe) when I went to the Yamanaka lake to record according to the plan that I
was going to release something during the Spring. But it started when someone
bought it for me at the lake. Actually at first I wasn't going to buy it,
because I think smoking was prohibited. But I think the pipe, and the cigarette
brand I'm using is famous *laughs* But it's complicated because some areas
don't allow smoking.
>>Even if you say that you can smoke, but because you don't smoke, you
started smoking out of the blue?
MIYAVI: Something like that. But it's probably more like I never really was
interested in it. But when I started, I feel, "my cigarettes, even if it's
prohibited in some area, I can still smoke." *laughs*
>>Is that so? You think it's an object right?
MIYAVI: That, that.
@ ATTACHED TO WHAT SLEEPING POSITION?
MIYAVI: Sleeping on the chair *laughs*
>>Sleeping on the chair?
MIYAVI: Yeah *laughs* When I sleep on the bed, I go right to sleep. Sleeping on
the chair in front of the computer makes it seem like my body doesn't get rest
but my mind does.
>>Then you don't get any rest.
MIYAVI: Yes, but most of the time I would stay home. But when I'm in front of
the computer if I'm sitting there, I would sit there 99% of the time. *laughs*
>>With your eyes open?
MIYAVI: Of course. Before I woke up 10 minutes, there was a loud noise. While I
was sleeping I had knocked over my CD rack, but I knew it so I was able to
catch it in time. "hu hu hu it's good that I realized in time" I
thought that and went back to sleep again *laughs*
@ ATTACHED TO ORANGE JUICE:
>>You like orange juice right?
MIYAVI: The reason is not just because I'm attached to it, it's just that
wherever I go I would ask people to buy it. You can say that wherever I go I
have to have orange juice.
>>Did you like it ever since you were young?
MIYAVI: Mm...I've liked it since a long time ago. But ever since I became an
adult, I stopped drinking it. But many years back, I came back to drinking it
again. The feeling to drink it? It's like writing kanji over and over again,
"what is this? this kanji? it looks like this?" I think that's what I
think.
>>I see *laughs*
MIYAVI: Right? It's the samething with orange juice if you think about it. When
I go to restaurants I would usually order it. But there was one day when I
ordered it and it seemed like the flavor changed. "Oh! You're not
delicious anymore" (he actually says it like orange juice is a person
-D.T.)
>>I get that but what does it have to do with kanjis?
MIYAVI: Aa, it's full of Vitamin C. because usually I'm not a very healthy
person, so I have to eat a lot of Vitamin C. (err...I still don't get how it
connects to writing kanjis -_-" -D.T.)
>>Do you have a favorite brand?
MIYAVI: Mm? I used to like Pon Juice but I'm kind of sick of it now *laughs*
But a particular brand I'm fond of? If it's 100% natural then it's all good.
@ ATTACHED TO LOOKS:
MIYAVI: I want to be a man appreciated for his guitar skills. I love the sound
of it, and singing. It feels good to sing and do it well.
>>You like people with good personalities whether they're blacks or
foreigners.
MIYAVI: I think I have a bodyguard who is black, he's really really nice. I
think he's really cool.
@ ATTACHED TO FAMILIAR PLACES:
MIYAVI: I'm actually quite fond of closed spaces. *laughs* And it has to be a
place I know. It's a weird habit.
>>You're like a hamster, huh? *laughs* Hamsters are anxious when they're
in unfamiliar places.
MIYAVI: The same level as a hamster? When I was a kid, everytime I saw someone,
I would get really anxious *laughs* When my grandmother comes *laughs* If you
don't think anything would you get anxious? Like a guy who wants to wear a
skirt, he would definitely feel, "wow this is great" when he wears
it.
>>Thank you for setting a hard example to understand to make it easy to
understand *laughs*
MIYAVI: No problem *laughs*
>>What kind of room is it?
MIYAVI: Mm? I have furnitures, a bed, but I don't know exactly everything. But
my room is awesome, it's the best *laughs* The color is all black. I'm not good
with colors, so I just made everything all black.
>>Now we've heard of the many things you're attached to. You went to the
Yamanaka lake to record your release for the Spring right?
MIYAVI: Yes. I was like canned food that I had to try hard. I went for 10 days,
but I didn't do easy work. When I had free time I went on the swan boat near
the lake, everyday was really fun.
>>What type of feeling does the song give?
MIYAVI: I put more focus on singing here, the backing of the guitar I did at my
house in Tokyo. I think I finished the lyrics and the melody of the songs at
the lake. There wouldn't be any changes to that part. The singing would be
changed to make it different from usual, there's no real reason for that. But I
think it's just another way to sing. I hope everyone enjoys it when they hear
it.
>>Okay, last question. Are you ready for the live at Shibuya Kokaido?
MIYAVI: I feel happy and afraid about my first opening. It'd be good if I could
express "me." If I can show something that's even more than a live,
that'd be great. No matter how the sound, or the look of it turns out, I hope
everyone comes and have fun with me.
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