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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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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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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.
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There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
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Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.
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It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.
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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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If you want to be a better musician, hang out with a computer coder.
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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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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.
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When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
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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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