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I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.

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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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Fashion is becoming the same thing as our devices.
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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.
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Today we all give all our data away all day long while aiming to maintaining our privacy.
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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.
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With unisex fashion, you know, females were doing it first. You're the reason we have unisex clothing. It's because girls said, Wait, I can wear jeans, too! I can wear a suit, too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.
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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.
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If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
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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.
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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.
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Regulation has never really worked unless it's hate speech libel etc.
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My attention span is very short.
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I've been truly protected by my uncles.
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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.
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When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.
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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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