[ASKKPOP] Big Bang talk about the hard times they had as trainees and their peak

Big Bangwalked down memory lane as they discussed their time as trainees as well as their future.

In an interview withNewsen, the members were asked how they feel about promoting as Big Bang for nearly 10 years.T.O.Preplied, "We haven't fought once. We still feel as if time is not important. We haven't lived with a sense of time, so maybe that's why we think the idea of time is not important."

TaeyangandG-Dragonsaid, "Even when we were trainees, the company was in a difficult period. In that difficult environment, we went through a hard time too.Now the YG system has becomesystematized andwe see the trainees who are learning in this system, we think it will be hard for them to learn and take on a 'hungry mentality.' When we were young, we felt hunger in our bones. If we got #1 as soon as we debuted, I think we wouldn't have had a lasting passion. We were a group that wasn't even able to make it near 1st place for our first one to two years."

Taeyang added, "When we were trainees, we loved snacks. It was hard to practice and we wanted to eat snacks, but we didn't have the money to buy them. So we asked the PD who was filming our documentary to buy some for us. If we ordered food more than once a day, we were called and scolded. We couldn't spend more than 5,000 won (approx. $4.62 USD). We didn't like feeling uneasy, so we only ordered an appropriate amount. We still talk about that a lot."

G-Dragon said, "Now our company's economic status is of course much better than it was back then. There are a lot of options we can choose from. Maybe we endured through everything for that long to do these things."

The members were asked about what they thought about their 'peak'.Taeyang and G-Dragon said, "To an extent, it's true we need to decide when our peak was, but we don't know if it already came or if a higher peak will come in the future. That's why we think it'll have meaning to decide on that. For example, if our peak is becoming likeMichael Jackson, then we can't be satisfied with where we are now. We don't want to be like that. Rather than deciding on one [goal] and going towards that one goal, we haven't decided on a goal, and as we continuously going forward, we think we will reach it. If we look back now, we don't know when our peak was. We'll have to look back much later on in order to find that out."

At the rate they're going, Big Bang have yet to reach their peak and will only go up from here. What do you think?