Yoko Hamasaki: “In URBANGARDE, my point of view comes from a character, it’s fiction. But in ‘Blue Forest’, I wrote about myself. Yoko Hamasaki is a real woman, and I wanted to bring out a woman’s complexity in the lyrics and performance. This album is the real Yoko.”
Link:
http://jrock247.com/2017/10/yoko-hamasaki-interview-2017/