If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?

When you think outside of what you know, that brings out the best in you.

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.

I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.

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

The Black Eyed Peas sell thousands of seats in every country on the planet. You can't get nervous. We're all succeeding in all different parts of our careers. Just because I produce Nas and John Legend and Justin Timberlake doesn't mean it will change the dynamic of the Peas.

There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart