Quotes from Tablo

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.

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

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you

Your life, your soul, your world. They cannot kill it. Look at me, I've died but I opened my eyes again.

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.

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

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn't. I couldn't even smile.

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it's wings.

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.

One reason why love songs are better than love itself is that you can replay them.

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

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.

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.

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.

Rather than someone that i can't take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can't take my heart off

Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.

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.

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.

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.