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" My lifetime role model and hero is Freddie Mercury of Queen. "
Psy
Role
Model
Role Model
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" I never expect I would become a K-pop star. "
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" Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. "
Psy
Roses
Drums
Play
" I just made my album. I did my best. And I uploaded the video just to 'YouTube.' That was all. "
Psy
Best
Album
Video
" My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people. "
Psy
Park
Person
Wife
" I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.' "
Psy
Me
Fun
Just
" If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her. "
Psy
Stand Up
Artist
Her
" It's tiring to be asked the same questions all day long: 'What is Gangnam style?' and 'Teach me how to dance.' "
Psy
Dance
Style
Questions
" Everything moves way too fast. "
Psy
Fast
Moves
Too
" Thanks to many great K-pop singers, the groundwork has been laid for more Korean songs to be readily accessible to an overseas audience via channels like YouTube. "
Psy
Great
More
Thanks
" I'm not that good looking. "
Psy
Looking
Good Looking
Good
" I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny. "
Psy
Me
Funny
Good
" I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna. "
Psy
Like
Concerts
Goal
" To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song. "
Psy
World
Funny
Dance
" I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off. "
Psy
Me
Job
Dark
" Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same. "
Psy
Now
Different
Here
" If I say, 'Hey, I'm Psy.' 'Psy?' 'The guy from the video on YouTube?' 'Oh.' I hate that. I've got to be more popular than the video. So I need to keep promoting myself. "
Psy
Need
Myself
More
" I try to dress classy and dance cheesy. "
Psy
Dance
Cheesy
Classy
" My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different. "
Psy
Original
Park
Totally
" I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world. "
Psy
Freedom
Women
Made
" I cannot learn creation from other people; I've got to do it myself. Now, honestly, I regret not studying - I don't know about harmonies, or anything, so if I'm composing a song, it's really hard. "
Psy
Regret
Myself
Now
" The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist. "
Psy
Want
Potential
American
" When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision. "
Psy
Decision
Good
Language
" I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar. I was not that kind of guy. Accidentally, 'Gangnam Style' happened, and you have YouTube and all other sorts of stuff like Facebook and Twitter and so on. So after that, I learned and learned. "
Psy
Style
Media
Know
" I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me. "
Psy
Funny
Dancing
Attention
" In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much. "
Psy
Son
Family
Tradition
" All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country. "
Psy
Gold
Me
People
" Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist. "
Psy
Good
Before
Artist
" I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house. "
Psy
Artist
House
Like
" The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics. "
Psy
Funny
Writing
People
" While I'm grateful for the freedom to express one's self, I've learned there are limits to what language is appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. "
Psy
Grateful
Limits
Freedom