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" In 2014, I knew my English was not so bad, but I had no confidence in talking directly to an English-speaking reporter. I had to do a short interview with, I think, Reuters from France. I was so nervous. I practiced memorizing three sentences for two hours. But, I think that these kinds of interviews make me develop a lot, and that helps me. "

" 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. "

Important

Group

Better

" 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! "

Back

Wake Up

Sit

" 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. "

Fate

Path

Believe

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

Watch

Colors

" 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. "

Doing

Think

Teenagers

" Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds. "

Control

Driving

Time

" BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.' "

Group

Need

Success

" 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. "

Thought

America

Cool

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

Yourself

Love Yourself

Love

" I taught myself English. My English teacher was the sitcom 'Friends.' Back in the days when I was, like, 15, 14, it was like a syndrome for Korean parents to make their kids watch 'Friends.' I thought I was a victim at that time, but now I'm the lucky one. "

Thought

Myself

Parents

" BTS fans - the 'ARMY' - tell us about their feelings, failures, passions, and struggles all the time. "

Struggles

Feelings

Time

" I'm always ready to be challenged. Like, 'Wings: Outro,' it was hip-house. That was the first time I'd ever listened to that genre... but I liked it. "

Wings

Always

Ready

" Music really transcends languages, and it means so much. "

Much

Languages

Music

" When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives. "

People

Special

You

" When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self. "

Love

Want

Think

" In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future. "

Say

Living

Will

" 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 Am

Eating

Love

" No sleep makes a human into another human. "

Sleep

Human

Another

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

Think

Succeed

" J-Hope always tries to cheer us up, and I'm so grateful. Actually, I like to call him a new leader for the group. "

Group

Leader

" 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. "

Love

River

Ride

" It was like a cliche for the parents in my hometown to let their kids watch 'Friends.' I had no interest at first, because I could not understand a word. "

Hometown

Friends

Understand

" I don't plan to restrict myself to rapping in the future, and I didn't want to come off as too aggressive, which is why I thought about changing my name. "

Thought

Future

Myself

" It's my official role to represent BTS to the world, and it's been a chance for me to mature as a person, but behind the scenes, I'm just one of seven members, and I'm inspired by the others all the time. "

World

Mature

Chance

" It's not easy to run a social media account over a long period of time, but we love communicating with our fans every day and night. "

Love

Day

Social Media

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

Mistakes

Think

Making Mistakes

" 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. "

Yourself

You

Sad

" We try to make our own BTS context. Maybe it's risky to bring some inspiration from novels from so long ago, but I think it paid off more. It comes through like a gift box for our fans. That's something you can't find easily from American artists. "

Long

Think

You

" I've had to accept that - that everyone cannot love me. Because when there's love, there's hate. When there's light, there's dark. But it was really hard to accept as an artist that there's a lot of people that hate me, but on the other side, there are many more people who love me. I think everyone goes through that. "

Light

Think

People