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It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.

My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.

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've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.

Waste is only waste if we waste it.

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

I have ADHD. I'll admit it.

I can procrastinate a little bit.

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

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

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

I don't need anyone to validate me.

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

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

Romantic love is painful.

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.

I don't despise people.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

My attention span is very short.

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

I have a pro tools rig that I carry in my backpack.

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.

Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?

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

Don't be afraid of the dark
Look inside
Grab your heart
Let it shine
If it's dark outside
Shine your light

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 dream to be like mega crazy rich.

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'm like a mama's boy and stuff.

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers.

The maps are really like a filter. They filter information for you to make better decisions on where you are going and what to do,

But Michael Jackson didn't have perfect diction - He said 'chamone' instead of 'come on'.

I don't know what silence sounds like anymore.

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.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

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

The world doesn't need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

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

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

I'm fascinated with quantum physics.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

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

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

I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.

If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.

I don't want to preach to people.

Great coders are today's rock stars.

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.

I'm a fan of X-men.

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

Philanthropy is my job.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them.

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.

When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

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

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

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

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.

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.

Code writers, they are my idols.

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.

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

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about ... 'Let's Get It Started.'

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

Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group.

There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart

When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.

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

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

Love lasts forever.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

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

I don't like politics.

I've been truly protected by my uncles.

Things don't have to end. They can begin again.

'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?

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

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.

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.