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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
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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
Businessperson
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Film Producer
Film Score Composer
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William James Adams Jr.
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William Adams
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I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
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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.
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I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
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If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart
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If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
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Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.
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I've been truly protected by my uncles.
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