Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.
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.
I just like seeing kids inspired.
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.
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.
I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
I don't like politics.
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.
It's a rare combination to have someone who can write songs and sing well.
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.
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.
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
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.'
Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
Philanthropy is my job.
I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas.
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.
I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.
Code writers, they are my idols.
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?