Musician

I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.

If you want to love a person, you should know that there are tears, and there can even be hatred inside of it. I think a love really includes all of that.

Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.

I have no driver's license, so I ride a bicycle beside the Han River. That's what I really love because no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free.

We're trying to say that if you, in love, when you're not true to yourself, the love won't last. Because love is complex, and we always have the dark sides and the sad sides.

No sleep makes a human into another human.

I love to try the local food wherever I am. But I'm not that adventurous when it comes to eating. I prefer to be safe. I have failed at eating some daring food.

I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me.

I was an underground rapper and only 16 years old, a freshman at high school. Bang thought I had potential as a rapper and lyricist, and we went from there. Then Suga joined us.

I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

Came from a song that I made from, like, 2012 - there was some phrase like 'Rap Monster', and I just, I thought it was so cool. But as I grow up, and as I came to America, I think it felt like too much. So I just abbreviated it to 'RM', and it could symbolize many things. It could have more spectrums to it.

If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.

Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.

I think we're always doing something for teenagers and youngsters because BTS originally performed itself as a socially conscious band. We always wanted to sell our performances like we did with our debut.

It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.

My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.

In many countries, when I gave the name 'Rap Monster,' I often heard that it was 'too much.'

We're on some path that's set since we're born, but I still believe we can change some things. So I believe in my faith, but I still don't believe in my fate.

I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, 'cause I've got nothing to do without that!