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

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" 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. "

" Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group. "

" 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.' "

" I don't want to preach to people. "

" There's an entry point to any relationship. "

" My favorite game is Madden. That's it. I'm a Madden addict. I go at it. "

" I'm fascinated with quantum physics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Philanthropy is my job. "

" Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact. "

" My attention span is very short. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future. "

" Code writers, they are my idols. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route. "

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

" 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. "

" I just like seeing kids inspired. "

" 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 know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block. "

" 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. "