Taboo

I'm the performer of the group. My thing is like, every time I come on stage, I always bring it 120 percent, 150 percent.

Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual… we're always pushing the envelope."

I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.

Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational.

We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we can be free onstage and in the studio recording. That way we can come up with original and creative stuff.

I didn't want to be a deadbeat dad, so I said, ‘OK, my mission is to provide for my son in the future,'"

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

We were just going for growth, bigger sound, just a spectrum of people. More global. That's how we decided to do a song like 'Where is the Love' - it allowed us to tap into a broader audience, because the message means a lot to us.

My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.