"I have to say I sort of miss that because now that I'm back in England I personally really dislike how subservient everyone is and how the system gets to do anything it pleases with people.
There is a vicious freedom in Berlin, I think, which sure, on one hand means you suffer but on the other means that you're free too.

There is a kind of dignity in that sort of recklesness."

Change England above to Japan, and you're not far off regarding it, either...