We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.

I'm not ugly, but I'm far from pretty.

I want to become a person that is frank and pure with a healthy energy, a person with an unpredictable charm who acts accordingly regardless of what clothes I'm put in.

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

When I go to sleep, someone wakes up to get their hustle on, that's why I get my 2 hours, their 2 hours and overseas 2 hours in. I'll make sure no one can catch me.

When you hear somebody with balls, that's me.

We who have been ahead in STYLE have usually been also ahead in our thinking.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

In order to capture Mid-World for new readers, I had to streamline the original tale [ The Gunslinger Born], but I also had to incorporate scenes from earlier Dark Tower novels.

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.