will.i.am

If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.

Every single song that I've listened to is in my memory forever.

Philanthropy is my job.

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

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.

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.

Transformers' inspired me as a kid.

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.

I just like seeing kids inspired.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.