Here you go, translated by Masa:
http://morimasa.art.coocan.jp/rockin.html
You have to scroll down quite a bit to get to the part where they talk about Duty. Before that they talk a lot about her childhood/aidoru era.
I assume this is the part you were referring to:
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Originally Posted by Masa
(S) The album was released, and the people around you say it recorded the remarkable sales as had been expected.
(A) Hmm ... I had expected more.
(S) Huh?
(A) Though I don't have confidence in myself. (Laugh) Though I don't have confidence in myself, I thought somehow, "Huh? I had expected more."
(S) Does it mean you had thought that the album should be understood more, or that it should be consumed more smoothly?
(A) No. I had thought we could understand each other more.
(S) You were disappointed to feel that Hamasaki Ayumi was merely accepted as a phenomenon rather than as music.
(A) Yes, so. And when I released the album, the first topic was that I was wearing the leopard costume.
(S) Well, what was your intention? Was it your nihilistic stance to the situation? (Laugh)
(A) You can take as so. Maybe grown-up people took a glance at the jacket and thought, "This girl, dressed like a costume play again !" and didn't but it.
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