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" When I perform my role well, I feel proud. "
RM
Proud
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" In many countries, when I gave the name 'Rap Monster,' I often heard that it was 'too much.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" BTS as a group sort of took off with the success of our 2015 album that had our hit single 'I Need U.' "
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" 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. "
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Love
Know
" They say people live to be happy. If you actually think about what happiness is, it's nothing much. When you get to eat ramen after feeling really, really hungry, that's happiness. "
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People
Live
Happy
" 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. "
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" Our lyrics deal with real issues that face all humans: choices in life, depression, self-esteem. And the fans know that we are there for them, and they are there for us. "
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Life
Know
" Popularity is a bubble. It's a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast. "
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" The concept of The 'Most Beautiful Moment in Life', that was chapter one for us; it feels like that because we were starting from the bottom, but on this concept, 'Love Yourself', we started to talk about some brighter things, like the real things in life. "
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Moment
Love
Life
" 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. "
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Yourself
You
Sad
" 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! "
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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. "
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Fate
Path
Believe
" I get free life lessons from J-Hope and Jimin; sometimes it's like they're 10 years older than me. "
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Me
Sometimes
Life Lessons
" 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. "
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Mother
Path
Son
" 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. "
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You
" I loved writing lyrics for rap when I was in junior high. I loved studying, but somehow I wanted to be a rapper who can write and rap. "
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High
" 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. "
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Ready
" 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. "
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" I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration. "
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" 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. "
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Thought
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed. "
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" BTS fans - the 'ARMY' - tell us about their feelings, failures, passions, and struggles all the time. "
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Feelings
Time
" 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. "
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Light
Think
People
" 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. "
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Potential
School
Thought
" If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first. "
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Yourself
Love Yourself
Love
" Most of our music is about how we perceive the world and how we try to persist as normal, average human beings. So our fans inspire us and give us a direction to go as musicians. And of course, their love and support keeps us going. "
RM
Support
World
Music