Ayumi Hamasaki — Japanese Musician born on October 02, 1978,

Ayumi Hamasaki is 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... (wikipedia)

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'
I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.
I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.
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.