When you have a girlfriend, there are many things that are irritating every day, every night. I'm sure it's different for everyone, but when you fight, it gets really annoying.

Stage outfits are loud, outspoken, glamorous, fancy, and very different from normal day-to-day clothing. Therefore, by its nature, it is experimental.

Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.

Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

I was about nine years old when I first heard Wu-Tang's 'C.R.E.A.M.' Before that, I didn't know anything about rap or hip-hop. I was just into Korean pop.

As a rapper, I was heavily influenced by American rap albums. But for songs that are more melody-driven, I get my inspiration from Korean albums.

I would write down the lyrics to 'C.R.E.A.M.' in Korean - not translating it, but phonetically writing out each word. I didn't know what they were saying, so I would just write everything down as I heard it. I would recite it and imitate it like that. That's how I started to write my own raps.

Because I love shopping, my house is overflowing with clothes. Most of them were bought by myself.

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

The most important thing is knowing what you are good at.

People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.

I'm the type of person who commits to the fullest to whatever I'm doing.

'Storm' was the first song I did as a member of YG. The record gave me a lot of pressure. I didn't think I was prepared at the time.

We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

I will keep - try - to be, like, on a new level every day.

I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'

Whether it's music or fashion, the older I get, I realize what's comfortable lasts longer.

I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me 'Enter the 36th Chambers.' It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it's hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos.

The sights you can find here in Paris are second to none.

It would be ridiculous for anyone to consider me the face of Korean art.

I am a songwriter and producer, and though you have to be personal in everything you do, you always having to look at things from another's perspective.

When I was young and didn't know any English, I was drawn by the energy and power of foreign songs and their melodies.

My mom is in charge of my earnings.

I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.

When I perform as a solo, I think a lot about what I always wanted to do but have not done yet.

Don't be afraid. There is no right answer in fashion.

When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.

If you look at the brands that I like, there are brands I like because of the clothes; then, there are brands I like because of their attitude and mentality.

There are albums that I like because of specific songs, but then there are albums that I like as a complete body of work. 'Ghetto Fabolous' is an album I lived with daily.

As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster - in music, in fashion, in art, too.

Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn't really realize how famous I was.

I just try to look good always.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

I think the confidence that I have right now is something that was created by the fans who love me.

Interestingly, when I look at pictures of me when I was five or six years old, I think I look pretty stylish.

To me, a staircase looks like a series of dark and light horizontal stripes, which is exactly how you'd draw a staircase. So I know how the image is going to look on the page.

It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

I don't want to compare myself to somebody like Fitzgerald or Hemingway, but I feel like, for some writers, going to a certain city, a certain place, is what kickstarts your imaginative process.

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

The 'Ms. Marvel' mantle has passed to 'Kamala Khan,' a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.

Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.

'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.