To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

A lot more people will want to hear a 5-minute singing cartoon about Communism in China than will want to read that PhD thesis, and that's the power of it even if a lot of details will be missing - that's the reason something like that often has more impact on society.

In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

I never felt like I had a surface image to rely on that people would like - I always felt like my music would not be very fancy music, my voice is not very fancy, there is nothing hiding me from the audience.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.