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" I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it. "

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" 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. "

" I don't like politics. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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Philanthropy

" 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. "

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

" Code writers, they are my idols. "

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

" 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 just like seeing kids inspired. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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Heart

" 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. "

" I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America. "

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Project

See

" I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet. "

" I have ADHD. I'll admit it. "

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Admit

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

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Mama

Boy

" 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. "

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Island

Know

" Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring. "

" 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. "

" We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code. "

" 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. "