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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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will.i.am
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 15
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If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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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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What Autotune allows is for people like myself and Kanye West not to depend on the singer. Back in the Fifties, the songwriter was rendered invisible. Now the songwriter is there in the forefront.
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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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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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It's my hope to inspire kids around the world to want to be tech stars in stem subjects.
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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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I love the Asian countries.
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When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
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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.
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Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
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I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.
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I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.
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