“Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, a...” — Lee Tae-min Quote

Recording and performing 'Replay' was a learning process throughout, as we focused on the details.

If you ask me, I'd say what the world now considers K-Pop began with SM Entertainment. SM was the very first company to take musical influences from Western culture and incorporate Korean culture into that by rearranging and writing lyrics with our style.

When we actually met our U.S. fans, it was slightly awkward and new at first, but it made me think that we should really visit more often in order to grow closer and more comfortable with our fans here.

I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing me in particular.

My mother and father put down some earnest money on a house on the north side of Chicago. I don't remember the details, but it got all messed up and we had to go back to that house and get that money back. I had to do that negotiation... It's not a situation that children should be put into.

There's virtually nothing made up in 'The Immigrant.' So much of the film came from somewhere in my family's past. All the details are from my own family.

I believe in focusing on details.

In F1 everything involves money, but there are other details to work on.

I don't believe that you can make decisions on anything without having all of the details.