Will.i.am Quotes & Sayings

I don't need anyone to validate me. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. — Will.i.am

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

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. — Will.i.am

I can procrastinate a little bit. — Will.i.am

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?' — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas. — Will.i.am

Philanthropy is my job. — Will.i.am

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

There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right. — Will.i.am

Every young person is going to be inspired to be a maker from now on. It's like how everyone used to want to be a musician, an actor, an athlete
but a maker is what people are going to want to be. — Will.i.am

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

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science. — Will.i.am

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music. — Will.i.am

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

I've been truly protected by my uncles. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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

I don't want to preach to people. — Will.i.am

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

I have ADHD. I'll admit it. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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

Look at the world. See the problem. And solve it — Will.i.am

My attention span is very short. — Will.i.am

When I wrote 'My Humps,' I said, 'This is the stupidest thing ever,' but in a good way. I always wondered what it must be like to be a girl, always gettin' pulled on. Maybe she's the smartest genius on the planet, but she's rackin' double Ds with a 26-inch waist and a big ol' ass and no one's ever gonna see her like that because that's the way the world is today. — Will.i.am

I don't follow waves or trends or emotions. — Will.i.am

The computer allows me to execute my ideas at the speed I think them. — Will.i.am

Things don't have to end. They can begin again. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

I'm fascinated with quantum physics. — Will.i.am

There are no problems that can't be solved. The world is too full of options. If you can't solve the #problem, it's because you haven't found the right option ... But the answer is always there. — Will.i.am

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

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

Tom Jones is like igloo-cool. — Will.i.am

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever. — Will.i.am

If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology? — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough. — Will.i.am

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

Great coders are today's rock stars. — Will.i.am

I just like seeing kids inspired. — Will.i.am

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

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

'Transformers' inspired me as a kid. — Will.i.am

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? — Will.i.am

Most kids are not dreaming of being programmers, scientists or engineers. — Will.i.am

You're always moving and thinking about a whole bunch of things. But those traits work well for me in studios and in meetings about creative ideas. 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. I figured out a way of working with it. — Will.i.am

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

I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. — Will.i.am

But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare. — Will.i.am

If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

I read Twitter all the time, even though I rarely tweet. — Will.i.am

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

If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

I don't despise people. — Will.i.am

I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education. — Will.i.am

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music. — Will.i.am

I can't sing "I Believe I Can Fly". I sing that horrible. But I can sing "I Gotta Feeling" good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about. — Will.i.am

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

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

I'm like a mama's boy and stuff. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology. — Will.i.am

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

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, — Will.i.am

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

Teaming up with the scientists, researchers and computer programmers at Intel to collaborate and co-develop new ways to communicate, create, inform and entertain is going to be amazing. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

Black Eyed Peas is a chameleon group. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

There's an entry point to any relationship. — Will.i.am

Love lasts forever. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

Romantic love is painful. — Will.i.am

My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing. — Will.i.am

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

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. — Will.i.am

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. — Will.i.am

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

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream. — Will.i.am

I was in the projects dreaming about doing music and now I've done music. When I had nothing to when I had something I still have this driving force that's fueling me every day and that's making ideas reality ... — Will.i.am