Taboo

We don't want to live in the past; we want to go into the future.

I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.

Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

I'm a normal person just like everybody else. I just may have a different job. But I have kids, wife. I bleed, I went through cancer.

I emptied the trash and wiped down tables. But my job that I remember the most was picking up horse manure for the Electrical Parade.

If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.

Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.

I was the first Pea to have kids - you know how it is - I have three wonderful children, and when we talked about that time, and Fergie would say 'Tab, what is it like?' I always told her when the time is right, it's gonna happen for you, and God bless her, and I can't wait to see baby Ferg.

At home, I'm daddy and a husband. There's no Superman's cape. I'm changing diapers, giving my kids baths, and coloring 'Angry Birds' and playing games with them.

When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.

When I see children in New Delhi, babies walking around in no diapers and their mother is in a corner putting up bricks, it gives you a sense of being grounded.