I'm coming up on 30. There are other things that I want to pursue outside of just performing.
I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.
I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.
There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.
Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality.
When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind.
As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.
The illusion that you could hold to yourself the things you most want and lose the things you least wanted to keep..ıs the struggle of lıfe.
I want to be able to fill in all the voids. I want people to say, "Ah Seungri will do whatever he can." I want to become this type of person: "Once Seungri has said it, he will go ahead and change/do it."
We're all vulnerable, and it's all hackable. If someone wants you and has targeted you, you can be taken down, and that fact is really scary.
Saying 'no' or even 'stop' is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
I don't want to spend all my time working as an activist. I don't get satisfaction out of it. I'd rather be doing something else. I'm a musician.
Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.
That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time.
I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.
I want to do something creative, not just easy.
I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
I don't want to be the only survivor on the island with no smoke.
You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.
