If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.