“We will try to make the name BTS sound as cool as The Beatles.”

We started out because we love music and dancing.

It’s such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.

When I was a little boy, my wish was to be on an airplane. My wish was to get on a plane and fly to the sky.

Everyone liked me when I went up on the stage at a talent search in elementary school, and that’s when I decided to become a music artist.

I remember being captivated by Jules Verne’s ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ when I read it as a kid.

The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I’d like to create and write more music that represents them.

Louder Than Bombs’ shows our inner shadows.

We’re proud that everything we do is giving off light.

When I was a little kid, I simply loved music and enjoyed expressing myself with my body.

It feels as if the world has acknowledged and accepted our sincerity.

I love my life!

We Are Bulletproof: The Eternal’ demonstrates that we will keep going despite the difficulties. It reveals our ego.

The singing in ‘Dynamite,’ it wasn’t easy because the song is high-pitched.

I think I just laugh nonstop. I think my laughter naturally melts in when I want to recharge.

If we think something is not good, we’ll openly say it. If there’s choreography, for example, and it feels like it’s going to be too taxing on our physical resources – as I said, we’re not getting any younger – we’ll say so, and then we’ll make those changes.

My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.

It’s a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter, but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

If I’m not the love of your life I’ll be your greatest loss instead.

Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all.

Anyone who was out to change the world by changing others was to be regarded with suspicion. The temptations of such a position were too great to be resisted.

The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.