“You always want to do your best for the one you love, but it's not easy to stand the storm inside your heart, and it feels as if you're wearing a mask in front of them.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“As it so happens, following on from LOVE YOURSELF, the first line of the MAP OF THE SOUL series' opening song, "Intro: Persona," goes: "Who am I." Of course, like it says in the lyrics, "The question I had my entire life" is "The question I'll probably never find the answer to my whole life." However, it is in the process of answering this question, which comes around in every period of life, that a person learns what it is they have to do.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Sometimes I was a little stuck up
Elevated sky, expanded halls
Sometimes I prayed let me run away”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Actually I'm real good but a little uncomfortable
I'm still not sure if I'm a dog or a pig or what else
But others come and cast the pearl necklace on me”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Time is passing, I'm still standing here, and people are putting all sorts of labels on me...I couldn't avoid any of that as long as I lived, but maybe there was one last part of me that only I could define. And if that part joined another part that even I nor anyone else could ever define, then my yesterday and today can be created from there.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Until then, my image of pop stars were just "pop stars." The people I grew up listening to and admiring. It's only right to be fascinated. I had this fantasy that they would be very different from me. But then, I learned they really weren't. On the outside, they ride expensive cars, wear gold chains, and have fancy parties every day. But a lot of it turned out to be just part of the business. It was "work" for them, in other words. And if they couldn't afford the cars or jewelry, they would rent them to show them off. There was, shall we say, a shattering. My fantasies were just shattered.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I don't know. It's not just like it's a single moment...I was just grateful and sorry and thankful and swept up in a thousand emotions.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“... nothing in Nature is black or white, few solutions are clean and clear; rather, reality, and especially our models of it, possess shades of gray throughout.”
Source: Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos
“The desert I've been struggling through without you makes me thirsty
So hold me already
I know that without you the ocean will be just like a desert”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“For example, when we practiced dance, some of the members would instantly master a move I would need several repetitions to get. I would get dejected. 'Wow, those guys are so talented. We're in the same classes, but how could they be so much better?”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS