TABLO

Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.

I guess the difference between the Korean hip-hop scene and the American hip-hop scene is that in the American hip-hop scene, you know, they have their Jay-Zs. They can become conglomerates through hip-hop. In Korea, it doesn't happen.

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?

If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.

When you go independent, if you fail, you're totally responsible for it. If you succeed, you're totally responsible for it. You are responsibly for who you are... and what you do and what you make.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

Don't expect anything ordinary from me, i'm weird, and i like myself as i am

Live creatively. Create life. These are two ways to make a better world.

People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.

To be strong is to understand weakness. To be weak is to have fears. To have fears is to have something precious to you. To have something precious to you is to be strong.

Robbing someone of their smile and putting it on your own face doesn't make you happy.

When I stop at a stop sign, I don’t think about the distance I’ve crossed. I just wish I never had to stop.

You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling evolution. Evolution is stalling revolution. Evolution, revolution. Collaboration, the start of revolution. My decision, the start of revolution. Revolution, the start of evolution. Revolution, evolution.

The musician and the listener. If this is love between two strangers watching each other from afar, that rough, burning moment when you rush in and kiss is the show.

What's the point of beauty if it's only seen by one?

It didn’t rain for you, maybe, but it always rains for me. The sky shatters and rains shards of glass.

These are the pieces of my youth, the small secrets and the not-so-great expectations that defined my coming of age.

Revolution begins with one step

Though I may not flow where the wind guides me, I won’t become still water.