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It was a dream to be a singer/performer, but I never thought I had a chance or had a real shot; I never thought I was good enough.
- Eric Nam
#Chance
#Enough
#Good
#Never
#Real
It's so wild to be able to say that I can do shows in front of thousands of people and have them sing my songs in Korean and in English - that is wild to me.
- Eric Nam
#I Can
#Me
#People
#Say
#Wild
I'm grateful that the public think of me as a sweet guy, but there are times when I get worried that my behavior would disappoint the public. I'd like to show them that there are different sides of me.
- Eric Nam
#Behavior
#Grateful
#Me
#Show
#Sweet
When people outside Korea think of 'K-pop,' most of them expect 'idols' with several members in a group, dancing in sync.
- Eric Nam
#Group
#Idols
#Outside
#People
#Sync
I was criticized a lot when I was singing in Korean. The producers and people from my agency would point out my accent and tones, and would tell me I sound too American to fit the local market.
- Eric Nam
#American
#Me
#People
#Singing
#Sound
In Korea, I'm not a K-pop artist, I'm just an artist.
- Eric Nam
#Artist
#Just
#Korea
I try to be honest with myself.
- Eric Nam
#Honest
#Myself
#To Be Honest
#Try
My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out. As a kid that's what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.
- Eric Nam
#Doctor
#Lawyer
#Parents
#Up
#Why
I'm a very blunt person.
- Eric Nam
#Blunt
#Person
#Very
Korean, yes, I am now fluent in Korean. I was not always. When I got to Korea, I was constantly put on TV shows not knowing what was going on. So that forced me to learn Korean so I could stop looking like an idiot.
- Eric Nam
#I Am
#Idiot
#Looking
#Me
#Not Knowing
I had accepted a position as a business analyst at Deloitte Consulting in New York. But before I went into that workforce, I decided to take a year off and went to India to do a social enterprise fellowship. It wasn't the best fit, but that was where a TV show in Korea found me and invited me to first come perform.
- Eric Nam
#Best
#Business
#Fellowship
#Me
#New
I actually received a lot of messages from Central and South American artists who complimented my songs and showed interest in collaborating with me.
- Eric Nam
#Actually
#American
#Interest
#Me
#Who
I had always wanted to pursue music. It was always a dream, but it was always a dream in the sense of, when you're young, 'I want to be president' or 'I want to be an astronaut and fly to Mars.' That's what it was to me.
- Eric Nam
#Fly
#Me
#Music
#Sense
#Young
I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of Latin immigrants in Atlanta, who didn't speak any English. That prepared me for when I traveled.
- Eric Nam
#High School
#Language
#Me
#School
#Speak
One way I deal with stress is when I feel a certain way, I just do it. It's like, I want a hamburger, so I'm just going to eat a hamburger. I don't want to answer your phone call right now - I'm not going to answer your phone call. Just be able to say, 'This is how I feel. This is the way it is, deal with it.'
- Eric Nam
#Feel
#Phone Call
#Phone
#Stress
#Way
In the States I might be an Asian face, look different from everyone else in TV and in music, but in Korea I look like everybody else, in Asia I look like everybody else.
- Eric Nam
#Everyone
#Face
#Like
#Look
#Music
When you first make money, you're just excited that you have it and just buy things on a whim. You don't really think about the implications that taxes have, because when you owe money, all of a sudden all of the money in your account - it's gone!
- Eric Nam
#Buy
#Excited
#Money
#Owe
#Taxes
I don't know why I feel the need to try and do everything. But I kind of have this mentality that you live once, and I have a lot of things that I want to do and there's a lot of things that I want to try. So I have to at least give it a shot before I don't try at all or like, give up on things.
- Eric Nam
#Everything
#Feel
#Live
#Try
#Why
No matter what you do, you should enjoy it. You should really find passion in it.
- Eric Nam
#Enjoy
#Find
#Matter
#Passion
#Should
I was born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, which as you can imagine, was not the most diverse place to grow up in as a Korean American.
- Eric Nam
#American
#Born
#Grow
#Imagine
#Place
We recognize that there have been acts in the past that are Asian or Korean who tried to go, 'Hey, I'm a huge star in Korea, I'm a huge star in Asia so you guys need to respect me for being a huge star there.' But I don't know. As much as we may be big, we have to be very humble and start from the ground up in the States.
- Eric Nam
#Humble
#Me
#Past
#Respect
#Start
I feel like people have stereotypes and notions about Latin America that aren't necessarily accurate or aren't particularly positive. For me, Latin America is a place that I personally really love and enjoy visiting and going to, and I wanted to be able to show it in a light that was very different to an Asian, Korean viewer.
- Eric Nam
#Light
#Love
#Me
#Positive
#Stereotypes
I think K-Pop is something that sucks people in because it's open. I can do pop, EDM, rock, R&B and it doesn't matter, K-Pop embraces them all.
- Eric Nam
#I Can
#Matter
#Open
#People
#Rock
I was part of the Atlanta Boy Choir probably like fourth and fifth grade. I personally didn't enjoy the type of music that we were doing. I was more into like whatever was on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
- Eric Nam
#Doing
#Enjoy
#More
#Music
#Whatever
It's easy to talk about how great love is or how you feel heartbroken after a breakup, but it's not as easy to talk about the process of going through the end of a relationship.
- Eric Nam
#Feel
#Great
#Love Is
#Love
#Relationship
I thought it would be so cool to be a musician, but I always thought it was impossible, because I would never be accepted in mainstream media. The fact that I'm able to tour North America and around the world is an incredible blessing, and I am thankful every time I do it.
- Eric Nam
#Cool
#I Am
#Thankful
#Time
#World
No matter what job or industry you're in, life is hard, but we're all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together.
- Eric Nam
#Best
#Life Is Hard
#Life
#Time
#Together
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