A never ending thread of Changsub’s deep thoughts

“Every time I had a really hard time with something, the line I kept thinking and reading over and over was ‘your life is at a point of a temporary traffic jam. Just wait and you’ll see a tollgate, and further up, a highway’”

“I am very silly by nature but I’m serious when I’m by myself because you think a lot when you’re by yourself.”

“I need to be able to live both as a performer on stage and as a person off stage. If I still acted as a singer off stage, that’s just off-putting. So I thought the difference between my 2 persona (crazy and serious) would be necessary”

“You don’t have to differentiate BTOB & Melody. Melody exists because of BTOB, and BTOB exists because of Melody. We’re all in the same boat.”

“This relationship we have can be seen as one-sided. I can let you go and do whatever I want. You can let BTOB go and join the real world again. But it doesn’t work like that. We don’t do that. I’m a singer because of you. That’s why we are inseparable.”

“We work hard and sacrifice for each other but still have such happy moments together. These short, but happy moments keep our inseparable relationship going.”

I always say “I’m okay since singing out of tune is a usual thing for me”. Actually, what I said isn’t true. In the practice room I think about why I sang out of tune so I get stressed.”

“I like comics and animated movies because I can find something to learn from fictional stories. Whenever I feel like my situation is similar to one of the comic books I read, I try to overcome by reminding myself of the main character’s lines.”

“As far as I know, the strongest person in the world is a mother. They’re supposed to be respected the most”

“Everyone has their own strength. These days, I wonder how strong I am as a singer. To defend my position, I might try to keep defending myself. Therefore if I want to be an inproved and a bettet singer, I think I should be a challenger all the time.”

“Wherever you are, keep trying to challenge and be a champion later.”

“When something rises up, it will go down eventually. This is inevitable. It’s a natural thing.”

“There will be a period in my life where I will go one step higher. It may be as a father, as a singer, or as a celebrity.”

“After my 50s and when I get older, I’ll just be Lee Changsub. Not as an idol, not as a celebrity, just as Lee Changsub with the title of a singer. I don’t have a choice but to leave everything behind. You have to come down from the mountain after you climb.”

“The wave called popularity will calm down one day. Until that day, wouldn’t it be nice if you could come down with me from the top of the mountain? By that time, we can enjoy the old age and have coffee together outside.”

“While doing the things you’re good at, you can do what you like separately. If you’re good at both of them, you can do both at the same time. If you continue doing this, you’ll have more things that you love and you’re good at. I think that’s how you should think.”

“If you get stressed, try staying still and something will pop up in your head and you will eventually calm down. Just like when a plane goes through a turbulence, a seatbelt sign would be on then goes off when it’s calm. It’s the same thing.”

“I think you don’t have a choice but to love children. They are innocent and pure. The way they see the world is so pure. They look at it as it is. When we look at a chair, we’ll wonder how much it would be or what’s it made up of, but for them, it’s done at being a chair.”

“The children are our future. They will become someone in the future after looking at us. That’s why you don’t have a choice but to love them and be careful with them.”

“When I’m with a baby, I feel like I’m refreshed. They don’t have anything to worry about. They don’t even worry about little things because they don’t know how yet. That’s why I love them. I want to live naive like them.”

“If you can think about the advantages of your job, and think of what you can do and how much you can improve with it, you’ll be more satisfied with your job.”

“Don’t make yourself feel like ‘I want to avoid this stress’. Just think, ‘Well, I could get stressed. What should I do to feel better?’ You should know how to enjoy a bit of stress. Try to solve it, face it, and challenge yourself. That’s what I’ve done.”

“Just challenge yourself until you get there. You’ll be there somehow after all. Always challenge yourself.”