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" 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. "

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" I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes. "

" Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself. "

" If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss. "

" 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. "

" As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me. "

" Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language. "

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

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

" Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group. "

" I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. "

" 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 listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes. "

" 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. "

" I've got all this stuff in my head at the same time as I'm doing stuff and I don't know how to stop or slow down. "

" Tom Jones is like igloo-cool. "

" When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers. "

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

" We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses. "

" 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. "

" Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas. "

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

" I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with. "

" I don't dream to be like mega crazy rich. "

" 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. "

" Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever. "

" I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears. "

" 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.' "

" Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. "

" I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.' "

" 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 didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc. "