โThatโs why we have the concept Love Yourself. We donโt want to preach โDo this or donโt do that,โ because thatโs not the way that we want to spread our message. Like for example, say, Anna from New York or Marc from Rio or me or you, we have different looks, different races, different parents and backgrounds, different weather, whatever. Everythingโs different.โ
โWeโre born with different lives,โ he continues, โbut you cannot choose some things. So we thought that love, the real meaning of it, starts with loving ourselves and accepting some ironies and some destinies that we have from the very start. But we never chose that, so instead of preaching or [giving] orders, thatโs why we committed to loving yourself and thatโs why I started with โIโm just an ordinary boy from city near Seoul in South Koreaโ at our U.N. speech.โ
โ Namjoon, Entertainment Weekly
