Quotes from will.i.am

Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

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

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

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

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.'

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

Philanthropy is my job.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.