Lee Tae-min Quotes

It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.

Law became boring, but like every job I've done, it helped prepare me for a career in music.

Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career.

I had four great years at Palace but just felt it was the right time to start a new chapter of my career.

Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.

I knew I wanted to do music, but leaving such a successful career one would think I'd kind of shot myself in the foot. I knew I made the right decision, and at the end of the day it's up to me to get where I want to go, but it's a lot to take on.

When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

I was with the Steelers, and I got cut, and I remember, when I left, I was relieved.

Arsenal are a great club, but after eight years, sometimes you feel that you need a new challenge.

I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There's more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.

I wasn't sure what would happen to me after 'The Voice.' I was just excited to make music.

I used to have visions of being a star all the time, but I never knew I wanted to be a rapper.

I started out doing the acting, and there was always an interest in music, and then the music just took off.

I performed in 4Minute for seven years, and, now, it is time for us to pursue our own goals.

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

I believe later in life I'm gonna change my name when I start making the right music.

I came from a classical background, and I was teaching and earning a living out of music at a certain level, so it's funny to make it as a rock star when we're 40 or whatever.

I'm making a fresh start. That's another reason for the name change from Lord Steven Regal to William Regal here in the WWF.

As grateful as I am to have been a part of a show like 'LA Ink,' I'm ready to end this chapter and want to focus on other projects now.

I didn't start my career or, really, my life before I came to Florida.

It would have been a short career if I had not been traded to Boston. I was rejuvenated in Boston.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.