May 2010

LAST INTERVIEW
KYO! KYO WITH MORENO !!!!! TOMA YA! What a surprise! ^ __ *

THANKS AS ALWAYS www.orchestrated-chaos.com BY THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION!

-It 's your first interview and first cover.

Kyo: Yes

- Yoroshiku onegaishimasu. (Thank you)

Kyo: onegaishimasu.

- So, first I want to start talking about the Budokan live in January, around Before and after live Budokan That Was There Different anything for you or anything Rather Was There That You've Settled / wrapped up?

Kyo: First of all, there was a feeling that the expression of “UROBOROS” was finally completed. The tour also began from Osaka-jo Hall and for me I was finally able to do a live that I could be satisfied with at Budokan.

--Up until now in your band’s history, especially the second day that I saw, I thought that it was a really important live but how was it for you?

Kyo: Let me see. There was a feeling of fulfillment and accomplishment. I thought that at that time we were able to give out everything. As for the first day, people around me told me that it was good but for me I wasn’t able to really get into it and couldn’t be satisfied. But that appraisal is not really important. Only whether I could think that it’s good or not. Especially during Osaka-jo Hall, I was losing my voice and was nervous, but even so I did all that I can but no matter what I couldn’t be satisfied with the live. And I’ve been constantly thinking of that revenge and I think that I was able to properly fulfill that on the second day of Budokan.

-What made you think that were able to fulfill your revenge?

Kyo: Hmmm I wonder……it’s not about the vision that I drew or that I was able to sing well, i t was the atmosphere and some power that swallowed the venue that I don’t really understand. Also it was the feeling of unity of the band. It was that kind of feeling.

--That’s not concrete (laughs).

Kyo: ……at that time what was important for me was whether something will come down or not.

--Come down?

Kyo: Yes, when something is coming down or even when you’re concentrating on a song, i t’s like there’s this feeling of being set free. But, it felt that it precisely came on the second day of Budokan.

--I want to ask more about that sensation. ConcretYou are genuine music también with Kyo-san's way of dealing with music.

Kyo: That's right. When making music, Normally Would anybody think, "if I do this Then It Will not Be Received well" or "if I do this Then it won't sell", right? Completely But I Do not Think of Things Like That. It's Because I look at whether or not it's fun when i do it. If I Lose That, Then it's over. Then It Would Be Okay Even If It Was not Me.

- What do you mean by, "It's okay Even If It Was not Me"?

Kyo: ;rsquo;s where I feel the differences in enthusiasm, but on the second day of Budokan, it was closer than usual. But it’s still not there. --You’re also asking from the audience that much genuineness with music.

Kyo:

That’s right

--Is that for example the same with a relationship with a person?

Kyo:

Aaah….I think so
--But, without the differences in enthusiasm, and furthermore communicating with both the same genuineness is pretty difficult, right? Like during a normal conversation, you’d feel more of a “What’s he saying?” or “Even if I say it, he won’t understand” like stress or a sense of disappointment―

Kyo:

I don’t talk to those people.

---Hahahahaha!

Kyo:

I’d go somewhere in five minutes (laughs). I give up fast. If I could see that he’s trying to understand me then it’s still fine but, even if he doesn’t really understand what I’m saying. But if I feel that he is trying hard to understand it then its pretty okay but if not then it gets a bit tiring.

--But isn’t that the case in the world?

CHTMLWould ought not was Completely Communicate Communicate, and Were Simply Thought of as "this person can not sing." For people who come to Our Lives Several times, They Would Understand why we purposely pleasure sung Song That Can not Be, But When You Look at it from the point of view of People Who Do not Come to Our Lives, maybe They & rsquo d think, "You can not sing this" and That Would Be The end of it. That's why I think Things That Are not That Will not Be Communicate Communicate. That's what's always been there.

- Does That "Communicate it anyway Will not Be" That feeling you've felt- Did you worry about it?

Kyo:

Worried, more like bored.

I was bored with whatever I did….but during the time that I didn’t really want to do anything, I got shocked by a band . And that’s the only thing I could see.

--By the way, that band was?

Kyo:

BUCK-TICK

--What aspect shocked you?

Kyo:

I wonder….maybe it’s because they weren’t common. I until that time really hated music, when you turned on the TV only idols kept appearing. I only knew that kind of music. Furthermore when I go to school, people only talk about That Would like "Something Something About Hikari Genji?" and the like. I Thought That WAS music shit (laughs). But That time I met DURING bands with a rebellious spirit overflowing That Was Completely Different from That world like X or BUCK-TICK. Even Their Appearances Were Were surreal and like Something from a different world. It felt weird, and that's where i Gradually got into. That's why I did not talk much to the people around me.
- So You Were alone in class.

Kyo:

That's right. It was pretty much Like That When I was in school. In school, you're Divided on wing happened. I’m from Kyoto and at that time, the Kyoto band scene was a bit different, all of the bands were good friends. I hated that.
--Hahaha.

Kyo: Bands were good friends with each other. Even if they broke up they’d definitely hook up nearby. I really hated that. The band that I pictured wasn’t something like that. All of them are your enemies, they weren’t but it’s having a more tense feeling.

--In short you felt that it was similar to a class in school.

Kyo:

Bands at that time did things like go to parties with fans after lives but I didn’t understand thl of how do we find members? But while we where copying and making flyers, I enjoyed the events a bit feeling That we where getting closer to the bands we admire. But honestly, from time That I Never Thought That We Would sell.
- Just enjoy the music and the band-

Kyo:

Yes, I enjoyed it, I did not do anything Different from That. That's why ... Even now I remember. DURING my first band's first live, I got pissed off at the people chattering and sitting in the back. "If You Do not want to watch, Then please go home." From That Time I Said That.
- Hahaha. Regardless Things That You Do not forgiveinterferes with your own genuine feelings.

Kyo:

That's right. For example bands play together Who Would say, "today's live was good, right? Each time I'd think something like, "do you really think so?"
- Also You can not only forgive That kind of superficial conversation.

Kyo:

I Do not Need That Kind of friends.

"Those Were Also kind of negative feelings Reflected in the music That You Were doing at That Time?

Kyo: Yes

. The lyrics and music / sound central Already WAS. InLXC

--Why did you want to be friends with him?

Kyo:
For some reason, he sparkled/glowed.

--But for Kyo-san, even if you thought like that, aren’t you the type who doesn’t approach somebody first?

Kyo:
Well, I like talking with people who I think are cool. And, uniquely, I thought that this guy was cool.
--Do you remember what you said to him?

Kyo: I don’t remember (laughs). I think it was probably at Nagano or some live house. But somehow, I really remember that I was nervous when I approached him. CHTMRelationship and it Was a perfectly natural feeling. Somehow we talk about how it Would Be Something nice to do together.

- If That Did not Happen Then encounter this band Will not be here.

Kyo: Maybe.

- Began furthermore this from two people Who Socially awkward somehow managed to speak to Each Other Along by feel and got well. This is a band That Was born out of a very human relationship / connection.

Kyo: That's right.

-After That, Do You Remember What It Was like the first time the five of you made music together?

Kyo:

A wish or Rather .... Well when to Dir en Grey WAS formed, I Thought of only "maybe we CAN do interesting things". But I've never felt Those feelings.
- And That has never changed.

Kyo:

That's right.

- For example, Even During The Recent Budokan [lives], in between songs There Was A Time When You'd Be Continuously screaming, That is of course the Simplest Way of Expressing the negative feelings inside That Are always Kyo san, right?

Kyo:

That's right. - But, withression is based on sorrow and anger, and feelings from the Beginning Those people Are Something That Can not Understand and What Comes out is a kind of depression with impurities / Imperfect Things. And for the People Who Carry the Same feelings want to scream But That can not, you scream it for Them INSTEAD

Kyo: Ah

- That 's why I think That kind of feeling of oneness Was Born at the live. In Other Words It Was Also a very pure communication.

Kyo:
Ah, yeah I somehow feel the same. It's Not That I focus on it and scream .... Even When I scream, you can of course see What Lies ahead.

--Things that lie ahead?

Kyo:
This may be a bit corny/cliché but ahead of you, you can see a light and the like, right? Like a feeling that you’re approaching something. It’s there. And I think that’s really important.

--That’s why you never thought of singing light [positive/happy things].

Kyo:
Yes, cheerful/bright things cause an adverse reaction with me. I’d think, “There’s no such thing as that” Like, there is no such thing as an absolute light. I feel that it’s more important to see something really painful and feel it Rather Than see a cheerful / bright thing and Become sort of happy. I think That Trying to see the Opposite side of painful and sad Things is more important.

- in other words, you really focus on the Existence of light.

Kyo: Yes

- What 's more, Because You Do not Want to Be That betrayed by Existence of light, you can not believe in it Easily.

Kyo: I think

Those Things That Are There somewhere. We Do Those kinds of lives But It Would make us happy if the People Who saw it felt refreshed or saved. But feeling saved when to thOur ey watch live and to live for just watching the fun of it and feeling saved Have Completely Different Meanings.

- in other words, you want to believe in Those lights only [positive Things].

Kyo:
Ah, maybe.

- You do not wish for a superficial light But Because You want to see the real light. That's the Same as Kyo-san's way of Being Involved [Relating] with people.

Kyo:
That's right.

- In That sense, I think That the Recent Budokan [live] Also to live WHERE WAS It Seemed That You Were Able to Reach Beyond Something That lied / ahead of the pain. somehow making it easy for me? If so even if it’s tiring, I’ll try to forgive, and I wonder what will become of my next self. In that sense I think that there are parts that are changing bit by bit.

--From when was that?

Kyo: When….? I think it was around after I turned 30, as expected. Up until then, once I hated a person, there was no way that I would like him.

--Hahahahahaha!

Kyo:

No matter how much that person did his best, it’s already impossible. 100% impossible, it’s because I hate him. That’s why for me it was very difficult to forgive people that I&rsqamp; hellip; But That Was Already In January [thing of the past]. - Hahahaha! It's Already old (laughs).

Kyo: Yes

. Right now I am Already making songs, and at That Time surpass the previous album I've Within Me.

- Is that a "new" feeling?

Kyo:

I do not know whether or not it's new But I feel that I've surpass my previous self. I think That I have. And that's interesting. Do people say, "It was Better at That Time" or "speaking of this band, Then it's this album?" I Hate That. I hate it if I don’t constantly improve. And there is a big part of it that “wants to become that kind of band”. And because of that, things to be thrown away and things that have become useless come to surface [come out].

--It’s because if you don’t throw away needless baggage then it becomes tiring, right.

Kyo:

Yes. That’s why

even now the need to express pain hasn’t changed but…I think that being able to do it naturally is still good. It’s because with each year that you become older when you aim and make songs, I think that the band would definitely degenerate. Even with people who live happiund not related but, I want to express something that would leave something like an image coming into your mind after you read it. Because it is more than that, it feels that it is on a much deeper level than things such as personal pain. Not a superficial wound. But it feels like it is heading towards a more fundamental wound found in humanity.
--It was never concrete and easy to understand.

Kyo:

Of course communicating something is important; I also think that having a message is important. I

t's like feeling the message even if there isn’t a picture-like explanation. I would like to be able to write lyrics that are close to these kind expressions like a painting-That 's right, that's why I think That one-track mindedness is very genuine or real. In a sense you can say That It's Also a handful. Become Things Normally dirty. If pure living Things WAS HAVING A Fact and if Those Things Were Placed in my glass case and taken cared of, Then It Would Become connect with people and really lonely. Already That is the Meaning of death, right?

Kyo:

That's right. - I think That if You Do not Want To Die Then the only way is to get dirty. But the One Who can not allow / forgive Kyo-san That is

Kyo:
That's right ... .... become one like how you pictured it yourself. And that kind of loneliness is something that I can’t miss no matter what. …And Kyo-san wrote a song about it, right?

Kyo:

…yes I think there was one
-- In the “Why am I sad when you’re beside me. Why can’t we become one?” “At least I changed the now to my voice” sad/languishing/emotional song (note: “Ware, Yami tote…”. Included song in “UROBOROS”). Somewhere, somebody strongly demanded that kind of strong and absolute relationship, right.

Kyo:

Hmmmm’ t Become One. Rather it's an age WHERE people's Relationships Gradually Become flimsies, right? But Even So I think Dir en gray That is the One Who expressos the emotions That Are More Than One person's worth of hurting, Lamenting, hating, and anger.

Kyo: Yes .

- This May Be But as for the personal feeling of Not Becoming one with somebody, I really felt That When I had a child. Of course There Will Come a Time When We Will Separate, and Become more and more separated. Even Though up Until Now That I Lived And Understood That, When I had a child, my feelings Became genuine / pure and I've Become more sensitive / Easily hurt. That ’s why it reverberates to me as that kind of music.

Kyo: Ah….as your feelings of love or importance keep on getting stronger and stronger, it’s sad and agonizing/painful. That’s right.

--That’s why Dir en grey’s music is dark and sad

Kyo: Yes, that’s right.

--Because of the genuineness/purity you can’t help but scream. I think that’s it. ….What do you think, do you think that you easily get hurt?

Kyo: Yes (laughs) --Don’t you hate that kind of self?

Kyo:

Well, I really hate it. I think that people who laugh foolishly at whatever others say to them have it easy. But I don’t want to become that kind of person. That’s why even if I hate this kind of self, but I also don’t want to become a person who doesn’t care about the reason. Which is why living is tiring.

--It is the scream of those people.

Kyo: That’s why…, aren’t there a lot of people who commit suicide in the world? Everyone would say that they’re dumb or that they’re weak. But….as for me I really understand what those people who committed suicide felt…

I think that there are a lot of pure/genuine people.

--Have you ever thought of changing that kind of self?

Kyo:

No, I know that changing it would be impossible. If it were possible to change it then it would have changed long ago. But knowing that it’s impossible is because I know that that is my bedrock/foundation. Honestly I immediately believe in people. I believe a 100%. And the moment when I see the other person only believe 50%, I get really shocked. And because of that I’d think, “Ah, as expected”. That’s why I don’t want to easily believe in people and Would make a Better and more livable world.

- That 's why you try Asking for a connection at 100% lives. There Were Times When That feeling and your personal feeling That this is a good live clashed with Each Other.

Kyo: Yes . That is connected to That. That is why, When There Are People Who Raise Their hands and watch ... I feel frustrated. - You can not forgive it.

Kyo: I'd think, "What are you doing!" But This Was Said a while ago, When people say, "that's just the way lives are" I get frustrated. I want to think That it's diffur eyes away from it INSTEAD But you turn your music Into battle with it. This interview's theme to Dig Deeper Into WAS Kyo-san's personality But When you summarize it, the conclusion is That You're an Easily hurt / sensitive person, That is alright (laughs).

Kyo:

Hahahaha. But in fact-, that's true. B eing Easily hurt / sensitive, I can not forgive That kind of self. Getting angry at
Each thing if small events. Who Are not There old guys smoke in the city and just throw cigarette butts everywhere Their? I Want to Tell Them Off, But I Can not Tell Them Off And Then after I come home, I'd really get angry. I get angry with myself and not that old guy. “Why didn’t I say something?” I know that it’s bad that these kinds of people are increasing but I really get angry with myself who can’t tell them off.

-Normally you don’t get angry with everything like that; rather it’s giving yourself an excuse for not telling him off.

Kyo: That’s right, you don’t want to fight over something that you can’t do anything about, right? I think that is an easier way of living, I think it’s okay but for some reason I’m not used to it. It’s disgusting, what’s inside of me.

--But, whs singing for you now?

Kyo: Singing for me….is something that puts my expression into form, and is something that I collide against with in real-time. Recently I’ve also had the feeling of challenging myself. How do I say this? This may sound like I’m lying but, it’s probably everything. My everything.
Directly tying everything into singing , that’s how it feels.

--That is your ultimate happiness.

Kyo: I think so, yes.

--I think that there are a lot of people who want to become like that and who want to place themselves amongst That expression That is Not limited to music. Viewed in this light, the present Kyo-san Being Able to Do That and furthermore HAVING That Much people empathize with it [is Remarkable]. Even if it's not kind / sweet music at all (laughs).

Kyo: That's right. But There is pretty much no actual feeling / realization that "and I've been blessed" (laughs).

- Hahahaha. Well When you start thinking Then it Like That Would not Be Dir en gray anymore.

Kyo:
That's right. It's like when to've Become Fulfilled, and think "my tummy is full" then that'sthe end. Even if I Like That Thought for a split second, the next day I Should think "huh?" I shouldn't force myself to make it [music] But I Should make it [music] while excited / thrilled. ... .. Well, it's Because It's Something That I enjoy it so it's okay (laughs)

would have many things to say ...

I love to have felt that something in the environment in the Budokan concert, I was really glad to hear that:) Of course yes, if you're surrounded by people who know you will not understand, that there a personal connection, why the hell you're gettingldquo; this is me "constantly. I want to newly think, "I'm Also this person." I Do not Want to Be A person Whom People Can Easily Pronounce, "Dir en Grey's Kyo is this kind of person." I do not really care about What They think of my personality But I Do not Want Them To Pronounce That I am like this as a vocalist. That's why I am Constantly searching. "

And this part makes me say .. Bravo! As I like! "It's like feeling the message Even If There isn'ta picture-like explanation. I Would like to Be Able to write lyrics That Are These kind expressions close to like a painting or a picture. "

not need much explanation, it is better to stick with a picture, because as I say, a few words to the wise is enough!

"I Think That There Are a lot of pure / genuine people. "

Of course there is, YOU are one of those people!

ah! and by the way .. I love that sucks!! ;-)