If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
— will.i.am
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing.
I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'
Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.
I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.
I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.
Philanthropy is my job.
I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.
I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.
I'm fascinated with quantum physics.
We have no control over the outcome of anything. Like the planet and global warming, we don't control that. If politicians want a war we don't control that. Acts of terrorism, we can't control them.
You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.
When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it'll get there, and you know that it'll get there on time.
Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.
There's an entry point to any relationship.
I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.
I don't need anyone to validate me.
I am hip-hop!
Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.
I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'
Code writers, they are my idols.
It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.
I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.
I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.
'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.
Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
Love lasts forever.
I feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'
