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
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
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 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
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
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
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. – will.i.am
We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses. – will.i.am
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. – 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
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
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
Releasing an album on a major label is like sending a package through Fed Ex. You know that it’ll get there, and you know that it’ll get there on time. – will.i.am
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.’ – 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
