The Myers-Briggs® Personality Type of RM: A Mind That Keeps Asking “What Does This Mean?”

From the beginning, BTS were never meant to fit neatly into expectations, and their leader played a large role in shaping that identity. RM, born Kim Namjoon, was a thoughtful, academically gifted teenager who spent as much time reading and writing as he did analyzing and questioning the world around him. Long before global fame, he was already immersed in underground hip-hop, writing lyrics, teaching himself English through music and television, and developing a voice that felt both introspective and unusually self-aware for his age.

When he joined what was then a small, relatively unknown company, BigHit Entertainment, the group that would become BTS began to take shape around him. RM’s influence pushed the group toward something more reflective and emotionally honest than what was typical in the industry at the time. Over the years, he has helped guide BTS from a struggling rookie group into one of the most influential musical acts in the world, all while continuing to wrestle openly with questions about identity, success, pressure, and purpose.

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Outside of BTS, his solo work—particularly albums like Indigo and Right Place, Wrong Person—reveals a quieter, more experimental side of his artistry. His lyrics often move between philosophy and vulnerability, blending personal reflection with broader questions about what it means to live a meaningful life. Whether he’s standing in front of a stadium or walking alone through an art museum, RM carries the same underlying drive: to understand himself, to understand the world, and to translate that understanding into something that reaches other people.

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Why I Felt Drawn to Profiling RM

I’ve always felt a bit awkward about my love of K-Pop. It lifts my mood, brings me joy, and also helps me process more complicated emotions as well. However, as a 41-year-old mom I just felt like perhaps people would think it was juvenile for me to love this music as much as I do. So I haven’t ever really talked about it publicly on this site. However, with the arrival of BTS’s new album, Arirang, I’m feeling pulled to explore not just the music itself, but the people behind the music and their stories. I especially appreciate RM because I see in him someone who’s grappling with the deeper questions in life while also trying to manage a high-pressure, public-facing career where every move he makes is scrutinized and critiqued. He’s someone who faces a massive amount of external pressure and expectation while wrestling with how to be authentic and live a meaningful life on his own terms at the same time.

I also want to clarify that I haven’t sat down and had a conversation with RM before. In the 0.000000000001% chance he ever reads this article and wants to talk to me about type, my inbox is always open (I doubt that will happen, but hey…I can dream that he’s secretly a type nerd like me).

I am a certified MBTI® practitioner, and I’ve been studying and teaching typology for well over 10 years in my career, so all I can do is use the knowledge I’ve gleaned and the information publicly available about RM to try to profile him as best I can. That said, any celebrity has limits on how they can fully express themselves and may feel compelled to wear a persona or hide certain parts because of rules, expectations, and self-preservation.

Nobody knows who Kim Namjoon, or RM, is better than Kim Namjoon.

All I can do is theorize based on publicly available information. If you have a different perspective on his personality type, by all means leave a comment and let me know! But without further preamble, let’s get started!

What Personality Type Is RM? (A Simple Overview)

Before diving into the deeper psychological patterns behind RM’s personality, it helps to start with a simple answer.

Based on his language, creative process, and the way he relates to people, RM most closely fits the INFJ personality type.

If you’re newer to personality theory, that label can feel a little abstract. So let’s break it down in a more practical, human way.

At its core, INFJ describes four general preferences in how someone tends to think, process, and interact with the world.

Introverted (I)
RM appears to process life internally before sharing it. He reflects, questions, and refines his thoughts in private, then expresses them once they feel more complete. This shows up in the way he talks about working through his emotions and ideas before presenting them to others. His words often feel considered rather than spontaneous, like they’ve been lived with for a while. He also frequently mentions loving his alone time, walking alone at night, and having time to process his own thoughts.

Intuitive (N)
He naturally focuses on meaning rather than just facts or surface details. When he talks about life, love, or identity, he often turns those experiences into metaphors or broader reflections. Instead of describing what happened, he tends to explore what it represents. This is why his words often feel layered, symbolic, and open to interpretation.

Feeling (F)
There’s a strong emphasis on connection, empathy, and emotional impact in how he communicates. He doesn’t just want to understand life for himself. He wants what he creates to reach people, to comfort them, or to help them feel less alone. Statements like wanting to reduce someone’s pain, even slightly, reflect a value system that prioritizes people over pure logic or efficiency.

Judging (J)
This preference points to a desire for direction and coherence. RM often speaks about wanting clarity, purpose, and a sense that what he’s doing has meaning. He seems driven to find a vision, whether in his personal life or his work, and can feel unsettled when that vision isn’t clear yet. As the leader of BTS he also often has to manage a lot of other people’s plans, schedules, and feelings, which takes a fairly organized mindset.

A Deeper Look at Kim Namjoon’s Personality Type:

Now that we’ve covered some of the basics, let’s dive really deep into Kim Namjoon’s psyche, at least how he describes it in public interviews.

There are people who go through life collecting experiences and spotting details, and then there are people who seem to pause inside each experience and ask themselves what it all means. RM “Rap Monster” from BTS belongs to the second group. His attention doesn’t settle on events themselves so much as the patterns behind them, the emotional undercurrents, the contradictions that most people notice but don’t stay with long enough to examine.

You can hear it in the way he talks about almost anything. A simple concept rarely stays simple for long. It becomes layered, reframed, and reinterpreted until it reveals something more essential. Just look at this reflection of his, “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.” Here he is doing more than sharing an interesting linguistic detail, he is taking an everyday idea and turning it into a lens for understanding how people relate to time, expectation, and presence.

From a personality standpoint, this pattern in his perspective shows up time and time again. It points to a particular way of processing reality. When you look at his language, his creative process, and the way he relates to people, the most consistent fit is INFJ. The goal here isn’t to assign a label for its own sake, though. It’s to understand the structure behind the way his mind works.

A Mind That Distills Experience Into Meaning (Introverted Intuition)

One of the clearest patterns in RM’s thinking is the way he moves toward essence. When he gets an insight or idea, he tends to refine it rather than expand it. He searches for the underlying meaning that ties everything together, even if that meaning includes contradiction.

That tendency shows up repeatedly in his reflections on love, identity, and human nature. At one point he explained, “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.” There’s no attempt to simplify or idealize the experience. Instead, he holds opposing elements together and treats them as part of the same whole.

In another moment, he observes, “Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings.” It seems as if Namjoon’s mind is always looking for patterns and complexity beneath individual experiences. Rather than describing a single situation, he steps back and asks what it says about people in general and what the pattern means for humanity.

He has also described his own creative process in a way that aligns with this pattern. “Rather than writing something that might feel flat, I want to shape something more abstract. Abstraction can feel vague and maybe not as bold, but if you look at the history of painting, abstract art came onto the scene after figurative art. It’s difficult to express something through exact representation alone and I believe abstraction is the compression of a thing’s essence, maybe just through its color or form. One plus one could be two, yes, but the equation could also contain brackets or inequality notation. I’m more and more excited by the possibilities that can be found in these blank spaces.”

I was excited when I read this, because it really captures how Introverted Intuition works at its core. It gathers impressions, emotions, and observations, then condenses them into something that feels both simple, symbolic, and complete.

This is why his metaphors tend to stay with people, and he so often uses them. When he says, “Life is a sculpture that you cast as you make mistakes and learn from them,” the image feels intuitive because it captures a larger truth in a single frame. It’s his personal way of making something complex easier to grasp without reducing its depth.

A Desire for a Coherent Vision

Introverted Intuition is visionary and directional as well. When RM makes goals he has a fairly singular vision of what he wants to achieve and why. Take this quote for example,

“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.”

You can also see him seeking this vision and struggling to find it with his bandmates in his recent Rolling Stone interview. “I thought in the military, maybe if it’s just all finished and we all come back in 2025 June, then maybe there’s some type of very precise sharp consensus that we could all relate to, but this was not very true.”

An Attraction to What Lies Beneath the Surface

There is also a noticeable pull in his thinking toward what hasn’t been fully defined yet. He has spoken about being interested in “the possibilities that can be found in these blank spaces,” describing a growing fascination with what exists between clear statements and obvious conclusions.

Alongside his constant search for meaning is a tendency to question it. RM often expresses an idea and then turns back to examine it more closely, as if he’s checking its structure from multiple angles.

He describes this process directly when reflecting on his own thinking: “I examine issues, events, and even myself from a variety of angles. If I observe a certain phenomenon, I try to find the reason for why it’s happening and work to understand it for myself.”

There’s a kind of internal dialogue embedded in that approach. Insight is not treated as final. It becomes something to test, refine, and sometimes dismantle. This can create a layered way of thinking where multiple interpretations exist at once, each one adding context to the others.

You can see this in how he talks about success and failure. He acknowledges ambition and effort, but also reflects on fear, doubt, and the instability that can come with achievement. He doesn’t resolve those tensions. He allows them to coexist, which often leads to a more nuanced understanding of what it means to grow.

“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.”

Turning Insight Into Connection (Extraverted Feeling)

What makes Namjoon’s personality particularly compelling is not only how he processes experience, but what he chooses to do with that processing. Many of his reflections are shared with a clear awareness of how they might affect other people.

He has said, “If we could reduce your pain from 100 to 99, 98, or just 97, then our existence is worth it.” That statement reflects a shift from personal expression to collective impact. The focus is no longer just on understanding his own experience, but on whether that understanding can help someone else.

This orientation appears consistently in his work and his public statements. He speaks about wanting his voice to reach people “no matter how far you are,” and about hoping that what he and his group create can become “a moment of light for those in certain situations.” These goals reflect a specific concern with connection, resonance, and emotional impact.

The Tension Behind Openness

This outward focus also comes with a degree of vulnerability. Being aware of how one’s words affect others often brings an awareness of how they might be misunderstood.

RM has acknowledged this directly, noting that sharing openly can feel risky and that there is a fear of being perceived as weak or being met with backlash. This tension is common for individuals who rely on Extraverted Feeling. There is a desire to connect, paired with an understanding that connection involves exposure.

As a result, openness becomes something intentional rather than automatic. It is chosen, shaped, and offered with awareness.

“I’m always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.”

A Coherent Psychological Pattern

When these elements are considered together, a consistent structure becomes visible.

There is a pattern of distilling experience into meaning, a habit of questioning and refining that meaning, and a strong motivation to translate it into something that connects with others. This combination matches up with the INFJ personality framework, particularly the dynamic between Introverted Intuition, Extraverted Feeling, and Introverted Thinking.

It describes someone who is engaged in an ongoing process of understanding life at a deep level, while also trying to make that understanding useful. Someone who recognizes complexity without rushing to simplify it, and who continues to ask questions even when answers are available.

When Insight Becomes Something You Offer (Ni + Fe Together)

Up to this point, it’s possible to see RM as someone who reflects deeply and then shares those reflections with others. But that description doesn’t quite capture what’s actually happening in his language. There’s a more specific pattern at work, one that shows up repeatedly across his lyrics, interviews, and speeches.

His insights work both as observations and invitations.

There’s a difference between saying something meaningful and saying something in a way that is meant to reach someone else where they are. RM’s words tend to do both at once. They carry the abstract, distilled quality of Introverted Intuition, but they are consistently shaped with an awareness of how they will land emotionally.

You can hear that balance when he says, “I want to live with a sincere heart and hope that our support and love will be delivered to even one person… I hope that only love and sincerity would overflow between us… please watch over me. I will do the same.”

There is an inward element here, a focus on sincerity and authenticity, but it doesn’t stay contained. It moves outward almost immediately. The goal isn’t simply to be sincere. It’s to create a shared emotional space where sincerity can exist between people. That shift from internal value to mutual experience is where Extraverted Feeling enters the picture.

At the same time, the phrasing carries a kind of idealism that feels distinctly Ni-driven. It isn’t grounded in a specific moment or interaction. It reads more like a guiding principle, something that exists slightly above everyday life but still influences it.

The Language of Universals

Another place this combination shows up is in the way RM expands personal ideas into universal ones. He rarely stops at describing his own experience. He widens the lens until it includes everyone.

Consider this passage:

“My father who works hard, mother who is a realtor, my dongsaeng all of whom are here today, the stray cats and dogs, even the stones and rocks on the road, all of us have a galaxy inside us. It is true, we all have a galaxy inside our hearts. But the sad thing is people become rich and successful and old and even die without ever realising this. Yes it’s true. So I want you to know that all of you have an entire galaxy inside of you and you are capable of anything.”

There’s a clear movement happening here. He begins with something concrete and specific, then gradually expands it outward until it becomes a statement about human potential as a whole. That expanding arc reflects Ni’s tendency to search for underlying meaning, but the purpose of that meaning is relational. He wants the listener to feel seen within it.

This is something that often shows up in INFJs in a very particular way. They don’t just interpret reality for themselves. They reinterpret it in a way that gives other people a different relationship to their own lives. It’s a subtle shift, but it can be powerful when it lands.

Turning Pain Into Something Usable

There’s also a consistent pattern of taking difficult or uncomfortable realities and reframing them in a way that preserves their truth while still offering hope.

As an example, RM once said, “life is more beautiful knowing that we’ve taken a loan on death. Even light is treasured more when there is darkness.” Here he isn’t trying to eliminate the darker side of the experience. He keeps it fully intact. At the same time, he places it within a larger framework that gives it meaning.

This is where Introverted Intuition and Extraverted Feeling begin to intertwine more tightly. Ni recognizes the inevitability of contrast, of life containing both light and dark. Fe then asks what can be done with that recognition in a human context. How can that understanding be shared in a way that helps someone endure, or even appreciate, their own experience?

A similar pattern appears in the way he talks about growth and self-acceptance:

When he says, “Maybe I made a mistake yesterday but yesterday’s me is still me… These faults and mistakes are what I am making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life,” the imagery is unmistakably intuitive. He turns something personal and messy into a symbolic structure that people can recognize in their own lives. The constellation becomes a way of holding together regret, growth, and acceptance without flattening any of them. It’s a private realization, but it’s delivered in a way that invites others in.

There’s also a tendency to zoom out and include everyone, almost instinctively. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he said, “I think a musician should talk with their music…I think for this album I try to express more of universal things like love, hurt, nostalgia, missing, and I think I’m still into that expending personal experiences into universal emotions and feelings.”

Even his more intense or defiant statements carry that same dual structure. “I will marry this goddamn world” could easily be read as rebellious or individualistic, but in context it reads differently. There’s a sense of commitment to existence itself, to engaging with life fully rather than withdrawing from it. It carries the weight of someone who has examined life’s contradictions closely and still chooses to stay connected to it.

You see the same interplay of depth and outreach in how he talks about suffering and hope. “Everyone suffers in their life… but rather than sad days, we hope to have better days. That’s what makes us live. That’s what makes us dream.” The observation begins with a universal truth, something grounded and difficult. Then it shifts toward something collective and forward-looking. The movement from realism to hope is deliberate. It acknowledges pain without leaving people there.

The Analyst Beneath the Philosopher: How Introverted Thinking Shapes His Perspective

It would be easy to look at RM’s writing and assume it is purely intuitive and emotional. There is symbolism, depth, and a strong focus on connection, which often leads people to stop there. But when you listen more closely, there is another process running underneath the surface. It is perhaps a bit quieter, more precise, and at times almost at odds with the warmth of his message.

This is where Introverted Thinking begins to show itself. Introverted Thinking is the third, or tertiary, function of the INFJ.

Introverted Thinking is concerned with internal accuracy. It wants ideas to hold up under scrutiny, not just feel meaningful. It asks whether something is logically consistent, whether the structure behind an idea actually makes sense. In someone like RM, this doesn’t replace intuition or empathy. It refines them.

He describes this process directly in one of his reflections: “I examine issues, events, and even myself from a variety of angles. If I observe a certain phenomenon, I try to find the reason for why it’s happening and work to understand it for myself. Anyway, my biggest edge is that I’m able to perform many “verification procedures” in my head. I can also see the pros and cons of something quickly and easily. I might say to myself, “People will like this, but maybe not that particular aspect. All I can see is the downside, so it doesn’t work for me.” This is Introverted Thinking and Introverted Intuition working together in tandem. Intuition looks for the perspectives, patterns, and insights, while Introverted Thinking carries out and internal verification procedure, spotting pros and cons, checking the angles and spotting leverage points.

You can see RM’s analytical layer most clearly in the way he questions his own conclusions. He doesn’t simply arrive at an idea and settle into it. He turns back and asks what it actually means. At one point, he reflects on his earlier ambition, recalling the language of wanting to “conquer everything,” and then immediately challenges it: what does it mean to conquer, and is it even possible?

That kind of internal questioning is not self-doubt in the usual sense. It is closer to intellectual pressure. The mind is not satisfied with a statement until it has been tested, clarified, and stripped of anything vague or exaggerated.

There are moments where this analytical tendency becomes almost visible in real time. He notes that when he used strong, declarative language, it led him to focus more on the details, asking himself how those statements would actually play out. This is a pattern many people with tertiary Introverted Thinking experience. An idea emerges, often driven by intuition or emotion, and then the analytical mind steps in and begins testing its structure.

Over time, this creates a kind of internal dialogue. One part of the mind generates meaning, while another part quietly asks whether that meaning holds up. The result is a style of thinking that feels both poetic and precise. His reflections carry emotional weight, but they are rarely careless. There is usually an underlying structure holding them together.

“There was a time when I regularly used strong language. “I want to become powerful”; “I’m going to prove myself”; “I’ll conquer everything.” Spewing words like this did relieve my stress. And yet, it made me think more and more about the small details. “So how exactly are you going to conquer everything? Can you actually do it? What does it mean to conquer, anyway?” It made me consider the blank spaces that follow such declarations.”

This analytical layer also helps explain his awareness of complexity in human behavior. When he talks about ambivalence, contradiction, or the coexistence of opposing emotions, he is not simply observing these patterns. He is organizing them and identifying how they function, how they relate to each other, and why they persist.

In practice, this combination can be both a strength and a source of tension. It allows for deep insight that is grounded in reality rather than fantasy. At the same time, it can make it difficult to fully settle into any one conclusion. There is always another angle to consider, another layer to examine.

Grounding, Overwhelm, and the Physical World: Inferior Extraverted Sensing

Up to this point, RM’s personality can seem almost entirely inward-facing. There is reflection, abstraction, emotional translation, and constant meaning-making. But every personality has a counterweight. For INFJs, that counterweight is Extraverted Sensing, the function that deals with the immediate physical world, real-time action, and sensory awareness. Extraverted Sensing types tend to be fully in the present moment, in tune with their surroundings, their body, and the physical world.

In RM, this part of his personality doesn’t disappear. It shows up in a more uneven, sometimes conflicted way.

There are small, almost humorous glimpses of this in how others describe him. He has been called the “God of Destruction” because of his tendency to bump into things or break objects unintentionally. Another member once described him as someone who “knows things that many people don’t, but doesn’t know things that people normally know.” Those kinds of comments tend to get laughed off, but they point to something real. When a person spends most of their time in abstract thought, the physical world can feel slightly out of sync.

This isn’t carelessness in the usual sense. It is more like attention being elsewhere.

At the same time, there are moments when he seems to actively seek out simple, grounded experiences as a way to reset. He describes riding a bicycle by the Han River because “no one gives a damn about me for that moment. I feel so free.” There is something quiet and restorative in that image. No analysis, performance, or expectations. Just movement, air, and the present moment.

For someone who spends a great deal of time thinking about meaning, identity, and the emotional lives of others, that kind of experience can feel like relief. It brings him out of his head and into something immediate and tangible.

In his recent Rolling Stone interview, RM frequently brought up the desire to stay present, but he also just as frequently said “but it’s so hard.” This is often how Introverted Intuitives feel. They have a pull to integrate their inferior function, Extraverted Sensing, but it always feels just out of reach or difficult.

There are also hints of how overwhelming the external world can feel at times. He has spoken about repeating routines during his time in the military and how time began to feel heavy, almost oppressive. In contrast, moments spent with his group felt expansive, almost like time itself stretched and became more meaningful. He even referenced the difference between chronos and kairos, distinguishing between mechanical time and lived, felt time.

That contrast reveals something important. The external world, when it becomes too rigid or repetitive, can feel draining. It lacks the depth and meaning his mind naturally seeks. But when sensory experiences are tied to connection, creativity, or emotional significance, they become much more alive.

There is also a tension in how he relates to growth and change. On one hand, he recognizes that the world moves quickly, that trends shift and time does not slow down. On the other, there is an awareness that standing still is not really an option. He reflects, “Sometimes knowing that tomorrow always comes feels a bit heavy… but the world moves so fast… ultimately, life is about learning to steer your own ship.” That statement carries both pressure and determination. The physical world demands action, adaptation, and responsiveness, even when the internal world is still processing.

In many people with inferior Extraverted Sensing, this creates a push-pull dynamic. There is a desire for calm, controlled environments where they can think clearly, paired with moments where they feel pulled into the intensity of real-world demands. Performance, visibility, and constant change can amplify that tension.

At the same time, this function can become a source of growth. Over time, individuals begin to integrate it in small ways. They learn to appreciate sensory experiences without needing to analyze them. They find grounding in physical movement, art, music, or nature. They begin to trust themselves to respond in the moment, even when everything hasn’t been fully processed beforehand.

You can see hints of this in RM’s relationship with art. He has spoken about visiting museums and needing to “fill” himself again from the outside after expressing everything internally. That idea of taking in sensory input to restore balance reflects a growing awareness of what he needs, even if it doesn’t always come naturally.

In the end, this part of his personality adds an important layer of realism. It explains the moments of clumsiness, the need for quiet physical escape, and the occasional sense of overwhelm in fast-moving environments. It also highlights the effort involved in staying grounded while carrying such an active inner world.

Without this tension, his personality might feel distant or purely theoretical. With it, there is something much more human. A person who thinks deeply, feels deeply, and is still learning how to stay present in a world that often moves faster than reflection allows.

Quotes from RM:

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I’m always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.”

“It is in our genes that we think of breaking up when we love and of failure and fall when we succeed.”

“Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I can’t speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.”

“I go to somewhere I haven’t been and just watch people and colors. That’s my inspiration.”

“When I perform my role well, I feel proud.”

“Maybe I made a mistake yesterday but yesterday’s me is still me. Today I am who I am with all my faults and mistakes. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser and that would be me too. These faults and mistakes are what I am making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I am, for who I was and for who I hope to become. “

“I’ve heard that there’s this mask complex. Seventy percent of so-called successful people have this, mentally. It’s basically this: There’s this mask on my face. And these people are afraid that someone is going to take off this mask. We have those fears as well. But I said 70 percent, so I think it’s very natural. Sometimes it’s a condition to be successful.”

“For most people the most beautiful moment in their lives could be anything, their youth or some time in their lives when something significant happened. But I don’t want you to think of only one part of your life as the most beautiful moment and despair that it has already passed by. Instead if you live in the moment and truly feel your life, then all of your life can be beautiful.”

“My father who works hard, mother who is a realtor, my dongsaeng all of whom are here today, the stray cats and dogs, even the stones and rocks on the road, all of us have a galaxy inside us. It is true, we all have a galaxy inside our hearts. But the sad thing is people become rich and successful and old and even die without ever realising this. Yes it’s true. So I want you to know that all of you have an entire galaxy inside of you and you are capable of anything.”

“If we could reduce your pain from 100 to 99, 98, or just 97, then our existence is worth it”

“I am so much more than my academic failures and I am not going to let my insecurity over those few mistakes in the past define everything in my present and future.”

“No matter what happens, no matter what criticism we get. What can I do? I’ll just do my best. Even though some people say that we have changed, we’ll just keep going. For those people, for these people who trust us, I’ll have to try harder.”

“I hope my voice could reach you. no matter how far you are. with all of my heart”

“I want to live with a sincere heart and hope that our support and love will be delivered to even one person… I hope that only love and sincerity would overflow between us… please watch over me. I will do the same”

“It’s okay even if we’re not an ‘us’ even if sadness erases me, even if dark clouds brew again, and I’m within an unending dream, even if I’m endlessly crumpled, even if my wings are torn, even if one day I become someone that’s not me it’s okay, for only I am my own salvation. A stubborn gait definitely won’t kill me; live how you doin’? I’m fine My sky is clear”

“Life is a sculpture that you cast as you make mistakes and learn from them.”

“No matter who you are, where you’re from, your skin color, your gender identity, just speak yourself. Find your name and find your voice by speaking yourself.”

“We hope that a verse in our music, a gesture we make during our concert, or something we say in an interview becomes a moment of light for those in certain situations. That’s why we do this.”

“There is nothing more admirable than living with a warm heart.”

“Love Yourself: Speak Yourself ends today. But our journey to search how to love ourselves will continue. So let’s hold hands and spend time together to love ourselves even more.”

“If you want to love others, you should love yourself first.”

“Life is more beautiful knowing that we’ve taken a loan on death. even light is treasured more when there is darkness.”

“Everyone suffers in their life. There are many sad days. but rather than sad days, we hope to have better days. That’s what makes us live. That’s what makes us dream.”

“I have many faults, and I have many more fears, but I’m going to embrace myself as hard as I can and I’m starting to love myself gradually, little by little”

“Looking for answers when there aren’t any, but we still learn. Isn’t this what life is about?”

“It’s hard to see the forest, when we are stuck chopping down trees. We keep talking about new songs, but I feel lost now with what this album as a whole is about.”

“I understand it conceptually, but whenever I hear us being referred to as “legends” or “heroes,” I get a physical reaction.”

“Personally, I really hate to be stuck in a routine, but the funny thing is we spent a year and a half in the military, and now it all feels like a dream. It feels like we were never there. In old Greece, there were two ways of thinking about time, and one was chronos and one was Kairos. And in the military we had to do the same thing over and over again, time was passing by, and that was chronos. But here in LA, time with the members, to my second family, this feels like Kairos. Time really stretches and you really feel. I don’t know how to say it in English, the impermanence of time.”

“But the one thing we have to hold on to is at our core, we’re still just a bunch of country kids from Korea. That unchanging truth.”

“I feel like you have to spit everything inside of yourself out, you have to fill it again, so you need something from the outside.”

“Just like you, if I could just knock on somewhere
If I could kiss the whole world so hard
Would someone welcome me, maybe embrace my weary body?”

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