“I didn't even have the slightest fear about learning. This was because the hyungs had done music before, whereas from the start, I couldn't dance, sing, or play instruments well.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Who will tell these stories if music doesn't? And that music, looking at it now, it's like those are words speaking to me. A few years later, listening to the songs I made back then, I feel comforted. They're like a letter written to my future self.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“For this generation, though exhausting and suffocating, you can't give the world a piece of your mind if you want to survive in society. Thus, in this generation, though you can rebel, it's hard to resist. BTS took the picture of this generation of young people and brought it into the world of idol groups: here, they defined their own generation through the means of hip-hop.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Later, in July 2016, Big Hit Entertainment and BTS publicly announced their position on the misogyny controversy, stating, "We learned that music creation is not free from societal prejudice and fallacies," and "Furthermore, we became aware that it may also not be desirable to define the value of women and their role in society from a male perspective." Gender sensitivity training is now obligatory for all HYBE artists before they can debut.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“The propensity to excessive simplification is indeed natural to the mind of man, since it is only by abstraction and generalisation, which necessarily imply the neglect of a multitude of particulars, that he can stretch his puny faculties so as to embrace a minute portion of the illimitable vastness of the universe. But if the propensity is natural and even inevitable, it is nevertheless fraught with peril, since it is apt to narrow and falsify our conception of any subject under investigation. To correct it partially - for to correct it wholly would require an infinite intelligence - we must endeavour to broaden our views by taking account of a wide range of facts and possibilities; and when we have done so to the utmost of our power, we must still remember that from the very nature of things our ideas fall immeasurably short of the reality.”
Source: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Part 1
“While "Save ME" on the one hand continued the stories of the characters from THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MOMENT IN LIFE series, it was also a message from BTS to the world.
Thank you for allowing me to be who I am
Allowing me to fly
For giving me wings”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Don't try too hard
It's okay to be a loser”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“No star ever gets used to countless anti-fans analyzing every second of their life to find things to criticize.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“I'm sure the other members were really frustrated. They told me to talk to them if things were rough, but I didn't tell them anything. It's the way I am, I'm not good at talking about those things. I can't work up the courage.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“...pressure to do well was so big.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS