I am an extremely energetic person, and my party songs have managed to click with the listeners.
The music should speak for itself, and hopefully it will.
I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.
In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that's real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.
My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.
I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I sing - if I respect the song. If I cannot project this to a listener, I fail.
When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.
I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.
You have to know who you're making music for.
Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. And far more than being an advice-giver or somebody who just plays sappy love songs, I really am a companion on the radio at night.
Every song I ever wrote, I wrote to be heard. So, if I was given a choice that 50 years from now I could either have a dollar or knowing that some kid was listening to my song, I'd go with the kid listening to my song.
The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.
When they're listening to your music all the time, you become part of their life, and some people get obsessed.
Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.
My songwriting is personal in the hope that listeners will know that I relate to them.
I am my therapist, and I analyze what's happening and if I'm being hurt in the process. The result is songs that are very emotional, very deep, although I try to write them generally so they won't alienate the listener.
Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'
If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.
If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
There are a lot of great albums that take a year to connect.
The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.
Just because you've written a song doesn't mean that you have pulled through. There are definitely songs where I embodied someone else's pain and that was purely to serve the listener because I knew they needed to hear something. But most of the good stuff comes from my life.
I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.
The thing that's been most important to me is being interactive with people that are listening to my music.
