It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.

In future we'll have a different type of rich and poor.

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.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality.

You have to have non-traditional ways of collaborating. But better is relative.