“As much as we want to show our own music, we also want the topic to be popular among the general public. However, if we only focus on popularity, the things that we have to protect will collapse - so we worked hard to balance it out.”
- Namjoon, Aug 2016 Star1 magazine interview

“I realized that popularity is as important as the musicality and the process of balancing is not easy. When I’m working on the title song, we work hard to approach the public, and we show BTS’ own music through other songs.”
- Yoongi August 2016 Star1 magazine interview

“[the company] lets us do anything that we want to do. Writing title songs, it has to be catchy & the melody has to be good. So it’s not easy to write, but [BangPD] has been giving us advice on producing music since our trainee period. But, with the other songs on the albums, +

“mixtapes, he doesn’t even touch them. He’s rational & not oppressive.”
- Yoongi

“Our boss tends to try to talk to us a lot in order to communicate w us…the company feels like a family. The CEO & the staff takes good care of all the singers”
- Jimin Aug 2016 Star1 mag interview

“I think if one works rly hard, it’s ok to want to be acknowledged. But I think it’s necessary to alter one’s mindset if someone doesn’t put any effort in & arrogantly thinks ‘you can’t achieve anything without me’...no one [in BTS] is like that.”
- Tae Aug 2016 Star1 interview

“I’ve always felt the pressure. I always think that we need to comeback with better music that will surpass our previous album. The next album will be just as important to us as the other ones and I have to work harder in producing to make it better…”
- Yoongi Aug 2016 Star1

“There is great pressure. If I say there’s no pressure, then that’d be a lie. But every album is like that…BTS has the confidence to receive your love!”

- jhope Aug 2016 Star1 magazine interview

“I always think abt the future. I tend to first think abt the things that I could lose, compared to the things that I’ve gained in the past. I’ve also had a lot of feedback saying that I didn’t enjoy times where I should hv enjoyed myself. It’s my nature…”
Namjoon Aug 2016 Star1

“We know that the audience’s applause won’t last forever. But, we don’t usually worry over these lyrics. We tend to talk about our little worries. We believe that we should constantly communicate with each other and stick together to reach higher together.”
- jhope Aug 2016 Star1

“We tend to discuss with each other if we have any worries & then come to an agreement. We’re humans too, so we have troubles, but when we talk about it, it’ll be solved within a day. We know that we’re important to each other more than any other people.”
- Yoongi Aug 2016 Star1

“I’ve fought with Jiminie over dumplings before. We argue over small things but we make up straight after.”
- Taehyung August 2016 Star1 magazine interview

(Sidenote: I forgot/didn’t know they mentioned the Dumpling Incident in interviews back in 2016!)

“My goal is to be w our members forever. I want the 7 of us to bond together & achieve bigger valuable results. My dream is to receive a Daesang & become singers acknowledged globally…We all have musical greed, so I hope we’ll work harder and reach the goals.”
- jhope Aug 2016

“I want us to stay as a cool group that never changes on the stage even after many years. When something good happens to us, our fans are happy for us, as if it’s actually happening to them.”
- Jin, August 2016, Star1 magazine interview l

“My hyungs have taught & helped me a lot. I want to work hard to follow them, I’m thankful to my hyungs for always showing me cool images and helping me…ARMY is an irreplaceable part of my life. I’m always thankful & I’ll only make you walk on a flower path.”
- JK Aug 2016 Star1

Original: https://www.atstar1.com/20160727104027631

Translation by KimmyYang https://kimmy-trans.tumblr.com/post/147900714611