Quotes by will.i.am

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.

Kids today arent listening to music audio-only. Theyre picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the pictures arent moving around. Who wants to do that? Its like Bam Bam Flintstone hanging with the dinosaurs vs. Elroy Jetson whos flying around space. If Im a kid, I wanna be kicking it with Elroy.

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your familys life but change your ghettos life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

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

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry Im in, its all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, its all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, its all technology.

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 didnt need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

If Apples a technology company in the music industry, why cant somebody in the music industry make technology?

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.

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

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

Romantic love is painful.

Theres an entry point to any relationship.

If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyones included, otherwise youre just going to have more of the same in the future.