will.i.am

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.

Romantic love is painful.

There's an entry point to any relationship.

I don't like politics.

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.'

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.