Jihae

“Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.”

“I think when I was 16, I thought I was going to go to law school. And then, once I got into college, I decided I don't like to read that much or to study that much.”

“Plane food is terrible.”

“I am a space geek now.”

“I had to do a lot of studying 'cause I had to learn new languages all the time. So it was a little bit painful watching other kids play outside, and I'm stuck at home learning something.”

“Music is my first love, and it's not something I'll ever stop.”

“I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.”

“Being the one-woman label that I am takes a toll on you; you have to do everything.”

“In my music career, I never was interested in working and writing and creating songs based on what kind of rewards I could receive in return - a hit song, per se, is what most contemporary artists have to deal with when they deal with a label.”

“My first album was very eclectic and very soft as a vocal expression.”

“I make video art pieces, take photographs, and dabble in acting ever since my screen test for 'Memoirs of a Geisha' with Steven Spielberg. But music is my first love and always will be my priority.”

“My musical influences growing up were limited to Korean folk songs and hymns as I went to a Christian boarding school where I was not allowed to listen to secular music.”

“I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.”

“I've learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he's a serial collaborator. He's co-written songs with more people than anybody I know - like the most incredible people too.”

“I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.”

“I make sure I'm always hydrated and take Vitamin C and sunscreen if I stay out in the sun.”

“I mean New Zealand has a beautiful energy about the place. You're surrounded by the water.”

“I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.”

“We buy into all kinds of lies that are sold to us from advertising to Fox news or from the Vatican to Goldman Sachs.”

“Being healthy makes me feel beautiful.”