All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

I need to show the world that my final goal is to perform huge concerts like Madonna.

In Korea, it's a tradition to inherit your father's business. Unfortunately, I'm the only son in the entire family, so they were forcing too much.

I never expect I would become a K-pop star.

When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern was how should I communicate with the public and the audience with my language. Scooter and I talked a lot about that: should we translate or not? Finally we didn't, and I think that was a really good decision.

There's no time to be bored. I'm so busy doing the horse dance...

To the U.S. and the world, I'm just known as some funny song and some funny music, some funny video guy. But in Korea I'm doing one of the biggest concerts; it's not a dance music concert. I'm playing with the band, so I change my every song to a rock song.