“I like the part of making music where no one is watching. Writing at home. Editing in the studio. I think the song gets better when it's been touched by quiet hands.”

“People keep telling me there's a gap between me on stage and me off stage. I don't see it. Off stage I'm eating. On stage I'm eating, too — just different food.”

“Play me three seconds of any K-pop song from the last ten years and I'll name it. It's not a skill. It's a side effect of paying attention to one thing for too long.”

“I'm the maknae so they make me clean. I'm okay with it — I'm a good cleaner. I'm also a good cook. Just know: the cleaning is real, the cooking is me trying to get out of the cleaning.”

“I was the vice president of my high school. I played baseball at lunch. I practice the high notes in the shower. All of these things are the same thing — showing up fully and leaving it there.”