Limahl Quotes

I'm not the ambassador of Japan or Japanese culture.

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

At 10, I could walk down the street and see over everybody's head. I don't remember being little or having to look up at people. I think I was born 5 feet 10. It's not that I felt especially tall. I was wondering when everybody else was going to catch up.

Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan.

My life was very Japanese.

I grew up in Japan. It's my first memories of life are Japan.

Japan is a very important market for us and has grown remarkably as one of the most popular travel destinations in the world.

I wanted to be a guard. I wanted to be 6'8' and stay there.

Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

Japan offers as much novelty perhaps as an excursion to another planet.

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease.

Usually, I get hired because I'm tall.

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having a lot of Japanese friends and being there over the years.

I have no sense of myself as a sex symbol at all. But the meaning of sex symbol might be a little different in Japan to elsewhere. The Japanese version seems to come with a stronger emphasis on a sort of grownup or mature male charm. And if that's the case, then I guess I'm happy to hear it.

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.

The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.

I'm tall now, but when I was younger, I used to tower above everyone - I still feel conscious of that.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

I was always taller than every other boy my age. So, whenever there was one boy who was taller than me I was like, 'Yes. He's the one.' Even if he definitely wasn't.

In terms of the culture, you can't beat Japan. It's my favourite country. It's one of those places you never want to leave. I love the people, I love the food, and I love their fashion because they're not afraid to experiment.