If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

If you really love something, you have to know how to let go.

Never do things that you will regret later.

You have to smile. Smile like you're really excited.

When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

I want to keep on doing 'Girls' Generation' forever. Please let me do so.

Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.

Don't do something that you'll regret later.

Let's be best friends till the end

We can at least go backstage where it’s cool and get rest, but the fans have to stay and watch in the heat. It’s not me mom…it’s the fans who have it hard.

When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!

Every wave in an ocean has a secret to tell you

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth--the cowards!

Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.

Understanding why is never enough.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.