G-DRAGON's Old Cyworld Q&A Self-Survey (싸이문답/자기소개문답) when he was still a trainee.

How people perceive us doesn’t affect who we are and it’s possible that our popularity may die in the future. But I’m not scared of that. It’s okay if we go through an accident and can’t go up on stage. The reason why we can continue doing our music is because us five are enjoying our time together as a team. We all like music and wherever we go and whatever we do, I’m thankful that we’re together. I have no fear and this is how it’s gonna be. - Taeyang (10 Asia Interview 2012)

“When five members of BIGBANG are together, we’ve developed profound memories and deep friendship. BIGBANG has given me everything that I didn’t have before. That is BIGBANG’s existence to me.” - Taeyang

Seungri is our cute maknae (youngest). He’s a very nice person. He has a good personality. He learns very quickly. He absorbs like a sponge. So I think he has a very bright future. And he has that something that makes him improve himself. He has the driving force.”

— G-Dragon about Seungri (on Bigbang Around the World on MTV)

“I usually have bigger dreams. Although I don’t have a specific goal in mind at this moment, I would be interested in supporting and digging out hidden talents through being cultured or exploring different routes since when I was young, I admired talented and amazing musicians and wanted to learn and understand their approach to becoming that way. I would like to build on pop culture with music and fashion, something that can be created and embraced in a different vein.”

Q: What will BIGBANG’s future look like? 

TOP’s voice is very solid and charismatic, whereas my rap is very thin.  Together, both of our raps combined to create a harmonious flow of rhythm and beats. - GD [x]

I have always wanted to have kids. It makes me want to hold them/hug them. Kids are so cute. They’re lovely like angels. Although there are others who might not like kids but the way they jiggle when they move and the way they speak so innocently. When they smile oh, kids are like angels really. Although it is still a little far from now when I get married someday, I want to make a nice family. I’ll take care of my wife and have kids. We will always be happy and I’m very jealous of Sean hyung. He has two kids, Haeum and Harang. They’re such a lovely family and earn a lot of money. They look so happy. Harang likes me too. Harang follows me everywhere around. He likes to hug me. I think he likes me more than Sean hyung. (to Harang) You’ve completely won my heart. At this moment it makes me really want to get married and make a family. I think I can even get married tomorrow but of course I must meet the right person, and then we’ll get married and be happy. I want to be a dad that a child can respect and a husband that a wife can always wait for. To my baby, daddy loves you the most, daddy loves you so much that I can do anything for you. Come to papa for a hug. I’ll be waiting for you. Oh and of course this can’t be done without my wife.

You 5 are just like trees of different kinds. [Jiyong is] the kind of tree which can grow very beautiful and attractive flowers. T.O.P. is the kind of tree which is strong enough to withstand any difficulties. Taeyang is the tree that can grow strong even when it is left on its own. Daesung is the one which can bear a lot of fruits. Seungri is a small tree which can grow up to be very broad and very strong.

Tell Jake that I’d like to be best man at his wedding! I know I’ve only known him a short time - but I’d like to make a speech!

I want to get married as soon as possible. If I had someone, I’d want to get married tomorrow.

Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.

Fandom is people you don’t tell your mother you’re meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.

Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.

Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky’s law and Godwin’s law and Murphy’s law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you’ve ever had them.

Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn’t care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.

Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.

Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.

Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.

Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.

Fandom is where you found yourself.

conveys:

another request

same-sex marriage

writingsforwinter:

This is the kind of story you read when you are sad,

something about two boys

who fell in love with one another and could only

touch each other in the dark

because they were taught that loving someone of the same gender

was unacceptable, unheard of, akin to walking through fire

and coming out on the other side unscathed.

We met at a Black Keys concert as Dan Auerbach

gripped the microphone

like a flower’s roots grip the ground, crooning into it like a lover,

and the first thing you said to me after we kissed drunk

in the bathroom was Qu’ils mangent de la brioche,

or “let them eat cake.” Did you know, you asked,

that Marie Antoinette did not really say that? It was

another French princess instead.

And all the while your tongue was inside my ear, your fingers

between my legs, colder than a cooler full of beer

rattling along in the back of a truck on a desert highway.

Tell me more, I said. Please do.

So you informed me, passionately, that Nelson Mandela

never spoke the words Our deepest fear is not

that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that

we are powerful beyond measure. Oh no, you breathed,

those were words from a novel written by Marianne Williamson.

And this is the kind of story you read when you are heartbroken

and lonely and desperate for love, how you spot two boys

clutching one another underneath the concert lights at the corner

of the stage, down in the mosh pit where no one else can see them.

How their faces as they stare at one another are upturned,

rapturous, full of a joy and longing that you used to think

could only be found in the likes of Romeo and Juliet,

or Adam and Eve.

This is the real tragedy, I think: not that Marie Antoinette didn’t say that

or Nelson Mandela didn’t say this, but that we forbid a love between

two people simply because they are the same gender,

because we are so goddamn afraid

that they could love better than us, and in fact they do.