在網上找到的，不清楚何時出的。
我一直都不明白為何Yoshiki不問Toshi為何離去，看完訪問，多一點了解Yoshiki的決定。
Yoshiki explaining Toshi's departure
Interviewer: Did you understand the reason why Toshi left the band?
Yoshiki: I think it might not be good to say such a thing but at the moment I saw his eyes, I knew it was hopeless. I don't mean that he seemed strange. We had been friends for more than 20 years, so I only said "Ok, I understand."
Interviewer: Did Toshi tell you the reasons why?
Yoshiki: I'm not sure if he wanted to tell me the reasons... but I didn't ask him. He said "I want to leave X". After about five seconds I answered him "Ok". Then I said "But I can't decide by myself, so may I call the other members?" So they came in about one hour. Though they didn't shout they discussed intensely for a while, while I was listening to them without saying anything. Hide said "How come? What will become of our lives?" I hate to tell you this because it sounds like Toshi should be blamed but it was true. I thought it could not be helped.
Interviewer: Really?
Yoshiki: I had spent my life with Toshi since I was 5 years old. I could not hate him, whatever he did. It was very important for me to know the reason why Toshi wanted to leave. In fact, I wanted to know everything in his mind.
Interviewer: But you didn't ask him?
Yoshiki: We are all different people. It's odd if all five members think the same. So I thought it reasonable for them to begin to think of themselves. I thought it was good for them to have their own management office for their solo works. I think I know where I can participate or what is not my business. When Toshi said, "I want to leave." I could not ask him why because I respected him and he was determine to "leave".
Interviewer: You understood Toshi the most.
Yoshiki: I wanted to say "Ok, I understand." whatever the reason was. I also thought it would not be different if I had asked him to stay. You could think of a lot of different things if it happened only a few years after the band's formation, but after you had played together for ten years, I thought it would only be an ugly argument. So I merely said "I understand."
Interviewer: It was a serious decision for X.
Yoshiki: Of course I thought it was the best thing to respect Toshi's will. My life belongs to me and Toshi's life belongs to him and he determined for his life.
Interviewer: Could you imagine an "X without Toshi"?
Yoshiki: I wondered at the moment whether we should disband X or we should continue it without him. I accepted the fact that Toshi will leave. I really accepted it in only about five seconds because Toshi had never wanted to leave before. So I thought about the remaining four members.
Interviewer: You thought about the concrete future of X, didn't you?
Yoshiki: Yes. While the other members were saying something to Toshi, I was thinking of the remaining four members. After Toshi went, the other members asked me, "What shall we do?" and I said, "There is nothing else to do." I told them to finish the recording work that was still left undone. We could think about the other things later. But what we all thought then was... "How would our fans feel, if another vocalist sang the same songs on the stage instead fo Toshi?" Of course we had a little confidence that we could make it... If a new vocalist sings the songs of X, they will be different. I wrote all of the songs because I had met Toshi. It wasn't like that I wrote songs first and then looked for a singer whose voice would match them. So I was afraid that we would not be able to play the old songs any more. But I wanted to continue with the remaining members...Anyway we promised to find a new vocalist within two years. Hide actually called me up and said, "Yoshiki, the vocalist of this band is very good. Will you research about him?" But I answered him, "I don't like to hire someone from another band." Anyway let's listen to him sing." I often talked with hide about such things. I was positive.
Interviewer: While you were looking for a new vocalist, you anticipated that X would end.
Yoshiki: I anticipated that the X that needed Toshis voice would come to an end. I had already had a plan to form the 2nd X then.
Interviewer: You were trembling at the press conference announcing the disband of X in a squeezed voice.
Yoshiki: I understood well in my mind that it was a new start for the next X, but when I actually came to the situation, another person in me began to talk, "Are you really going to announce it?" I decided to give the press conference by my own will and I knew the whole schedule. Nevertheless, when I began to actually talk, I suddenly felt sad, thinking that it was really over.
