Quotes from Taboo

My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.

We're a direct mirror of the audience, and that shows how hip-hop has expanded. It's no longer just an urban thing, and it's no longer just an American thing, either. It's a universal thing.

We all had to dodge the idea we were spokespeople for our races. Like, 'Hey, it's the Mexican Guy! The Filipino! The Chick!' We've always stood up to it and said, 'Fine, bring it on and we'll show you how we rock.'

We grew up with break-dancing and MCing, the old school, that whole era of just having a good time and knowing that the music was good.

Brazilian music has always been a part of us, but it's even more valuable now because of the sentiment or the theme of the actual song. So I feel like 'Street Livin'' is paying homage to what we started and it's touching on a lot of serious themes to DACA, immigration reform, prison control... all the things we address in the video.

In L.A., we played rock venues because we had a band, which hip-hop venues couldn't accommodate. And within that, we created a show which we could put on in front of anybody.

I'm a b-boy for life. I'm a dancer, I started with free style dancing and b-boying during the '80s and I always said to myself that when I get the chance to do my own thing, I will always have the b-boy element and the dance element because that's where I come from.

We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'

If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.

If I was going to play any video game, it'd be things like 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!,' 'Street Fighter' and 'Mortal Kombat.'

Before we had Fergie, it was me, will.i.am, and apl, and we were showcasing our dance moves in our videos.

In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.

I'm not into fame and ego.

We just decided to make our dancing as important as our MCing and our production. It's an element in hip-hop that a lot of people are afraid to use.

It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.

You really need to stop and appreciate what you have, the love you have from your family, your friends, the love that you have for yourself.