Will.i.am Quotes

'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

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

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

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.

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

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

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.

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.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.

I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

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

My attention span is very short.

I've been truly protected by my uncles.

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

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

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 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.

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.

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

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

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.

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.

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

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.

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.

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.

I don't despise people.

Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

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

I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.

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.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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

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

As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education ... that's the thing that worries me.

My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it.

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.

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

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

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.

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.

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 know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.

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

I'm a fan of X-men.

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 feel my personality is richer than my bank account. So if I meet a girl, maybe first she just likes me because I'm rich. But then she's gonna get to know me and say, 'Screw the money.'

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.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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.

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

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about ... 'Let's Get It Started.'

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

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

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

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.

Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.

I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich.

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.

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

It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.

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