Will.i.am quotes

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.

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

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.

I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.

Have different people in your fold. Have cross-disciplinary collaborations.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.

If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.

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

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet.

Trump affects the world in a major way.

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 am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

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

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

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

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

When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

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.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

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.

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.

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 are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

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

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

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.

Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.

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.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

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

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

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.

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

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

It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

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.

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.

Likeminded folks shop in the same circles.

But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.

My attention span is very short.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

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."

I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.

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.

I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.

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

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.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

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.

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.

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.

Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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

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.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

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

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

I don't wanna believe that racism exists, but the more I wish it away, the more I realize it's in our system.

I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

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.

Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President?

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

You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. I figured out a way of working with it.

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

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 neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

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

The way young people are joining communities online, and agreeing and separating themselves and creating their own facts about things like vaccination, is worrying.

Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.

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.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

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?'

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.

Great coders are today’s rock stars.

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.

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures aren't moving around. Who wants to do that? It's like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson who's flying around space. If I'm a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.

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

Traveling in Europe made me understand that America has an island mentality: No one exists except us. There's a whole other world out there, but most Americans - all they know is America, the marketing plan.

You don't have to stay in your lane when it comes to friendship or ideas.

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.

How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.

Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.

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

I've been truly protected by my uncles.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

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.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

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.

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.

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

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.