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Q and A with Nobuo Uematsu (Included in FF8 Original Soundtrack) Q: What did you want to be when you were little? A: My parents wanted me to be a Doctor or Lawyer but I wanted to be a Pro Wrestler or a Gymnast in the Olympics. Q: What is your personality. Bad and good points? A: Bad points:Don't have the basics down. Can't think logically.Lazy. Nothing that I do lasts for a long time. There is a lot more. Good points:I am still living. Q: What kind of room are you living in? A: There is a river running right in front of it. I get into a good mood every day by looking at it everyday when I wake up through my window. Q: What is a cd you currently like? A: The Gateway Experience(developed by The Monroe Institute) Q: When do you feel happy with your life? A: I am always happy with my life. Q: What does Video Game Music mean to you? A: If this kind of music didn't exist, I wouldn't be able to live as a composer of music. Q: Were you ever a kid that did bad things such as drugs? A: I was always intrested in something and was busy doing that so I never had time to think about doing bad stuff. Q: Did you do good in school? A: I was always busy in doing something so I forgot to study and do homework. Q: Where do you want to live if you could, outside of Japan? A: I would live in Japan for the Spring and Fall, summer in Ireland and in Winter Hawaii. Q: What do you do when you have off from work? A: If it is long, I'll go on a vacation and drink beer. If it is short, I'll see a movie, listen to music, try cooking, play around with instruments(all done while drinking beer). If I only have one day off, I'll go shopping, then lie around in my house and drink beer. Q: What was the first peice you composed? A: It didn't have a title. I composed it around when I graduated elementary school. Q: Do you have any children? A: I would be a more responsible person if I had kids. Q: Instruments that you recently bought. A: I bought a fender telecaster about a year ago. Q: Have you ever had a dream that came true? A: I dreamt one day that I would be working on FF8, and the next day they told to compose music for FF8. Q: Do you have a moment in your regular day that you don't think about music. A: I don't think there is. I am always near music and thinking about it. I don't think about music all day because I feel I have to, because of my job, but it's just that I love music. Q: What cities do you go to normally? A: Shibuya, Nicotamagawa, Oka, Yokohama. I don't go to any other city. Q: What is one mystery not known in today's world that you want to know about. A: What happens to people when they die. Q: Where is one place you want to visit once while you are alive? A: In this age, we can go anywhere we want to any time, so I don't think there is such a dream like place in this world that we can say, "I want to go there once in my lifetime". Anyway, places I want to visit right now are Canada and Nova Scotia. Q: What is one person(dead or alive) that you want to meet. A: The first human that walked the earth. Q: When have you recently cried? A: When I composed the FF8 ending theme, the FMV and the music fit so perfectly that I had tears in my eyes. Translation by: MegaFlare |
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