Quotes from Taboo

I know that being in the entertainment business... my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.

Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual... we're always pushing the envelope.

It's a natural thing for us to be working on content and finding ways to implement, whether it's visuals or the partnerships to go along with the audio.

The thing about Black Eyed Peas is we're very humorous. All we do is laugh all day.

The Black Eyed Peas as a whole is something I always look forward to.

I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.

I've never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.

Zumbao' is a word that is not commonly used in mainstream America or even mainstream Latino America. For me, I needed a word that describes me as a performer, as an artist and that is just me wilding out and being crazy. I'm Zumbao.

I'm the performer of the group. My thing is like, every time I come on stage, I always bring it 120 percent, 150 percent.

I wake up every day with a smile - I'm a blessed man, and every day is special.

We didn't expect 'Boom Boom Pow' to come out the box and be so successful.

Apl, my bandmate, is from the Philippines. He came to America in 1989, and the first person he met was Will.i.am. And then, I met them when we were 17. Our common ground was music.

Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.

That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.

Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.

It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.

When you're getting chemotherapy, you feel so alone, even when your family is there, or your friends are there with you. Sometimes it's just you, feeling like you're in a fight against something that you can't control.

At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.

I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.

A lot of people have a misconception about artists, that they're invincible, you know, they're on a different plateau. But I'm just a human being.

Black Eyed Peas music appealed to everybody and that's why we incorporated EDM influences, dance influences, house influences, and we mashed it up with the Black Eyed Pea melodic pop sensibility that still has bounce to it.

Will.i.am is the genius of the group. He's the one that keeps everything together creatively.

Our first major hit was 'Where Is the Love.' That was what best represented us bringing people together, no matter what walk of life, and no matter what culture or creed.

We're able to blend and rock any crowd. If you put us on a tour with Garth Brooks, we'll take his crowd too.