These kind of interviews are really hard to translate. I had trouble on this one because kyo used a lot of japanese phrases that really doesn't exist in english so i think this part might be really confusing...
-When you do that(rerecord if its off timing), do you think of yourself as a professional?
K: No, that's not a professional. Say you have a artist you really like, and that person wants to get hyped up for the show. When you watch those kind of people on stage, you don't really get anything from them. It only seems "eh", when people sing sad songs professionally. The concert begins from the rehersal, not the actual show. If you go deeper, it starts from how you live. Including all that, nothing with lies and regret, I want to fill myself up with that.
-When you push yourself into a difficult position, for example the pain described in your lyrics, does a different feeling come up than what you intended when you wrote the song?
K: I don't think the pain I mainly wrote about will never change. But when I'
m able to get more into a song, new things are born or I get into a different world sometimes. That's when the lyrics or melody changes during shows. When I stand on stage, I feel that I'm losing unwanted things. I am challenging myself to only be able to represent myself with my body.
-I was informing that you guys are working on the album, but in the means of getting into songs, are shows and studio work different?
K: There's a world in each song that you look into right? I think about how I can shape that, bring it to the closest of my image in my mind and how I can put my feelings into it. On top of that, something that no one else has done. When I am facing a new song in the studio, this is how I think. When I write new songs, I think about how they would turn out if we performed them in front of audiences, so you can only probably understand about 60-70% of the song on the CD. But then we make songs on the CD that can't be recreated on the stage. In that way, shows and recordings are different.
- The new song "GLASS SKIN" has already been performed live right? After you've performed it, were you able to see a more clear color of the song?
K: Every time we perform it, I understand it better.
-I think that color isn't just one color, but many differ colors and tones. I think the emotions are all heading to one place.
K: You might be right. Ever since "DOZING GREEN". The pain hasn't changed, but the how it comes to me is very different, and that changed the color and my expressions. I think the way the song is changes too.
- Is it from the experience that you've had in the past few years?
K: Yea. My songs and lyrics doesn't mean music, but it's coming from what I naturally feel. If I can become a better person, my expressions changes. After each experience my thoughts cement more and more or more flexible. I think that's the biggest change inside me.