will.i.am Quotes

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.

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.

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing.

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

There are no problems that can’t be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can’t solve the #problem, it’s because you haven’t found the right option ... But the answer is always there.

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

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.

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

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

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.

If you look at the world now its one that we couldn't have imagined in 1997! That I would be able to hit a button and a taxi will show up? We wouldn't have believed that everything is disposable!

Things don’t have to end. They can begin again.

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete -- but a maker is what people are going to want to be.

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.

Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.

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

When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.

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.

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do.

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.

My attention span is very short.

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

If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.

With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, "Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too."

If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.

It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with.

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.

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.

Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.

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

I love India, Russia and touring has made me many friends abroad.

What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.

I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

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

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

I love the Asian countries.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.