Taboo

“Fergie brought her own style. She is a fashion icon, but she's lovable and approachable.”

“Every time we come out, there's a hunger for creative expression or creative ways to put out content that isn't duplicated from our last run. Whether it's technology, messaging, visual... we're always pushing the envelope.”

“Apl, my bandmate, is from the Philippines. He came to America in 1989, and the first person he met was Will.i.am. And then, I met them when we were 17. Our common ground was music.”

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

“I'm happily married; I love to spend time with my wife going to movies, restaurants and travelling.”

“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.”

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

“We have a global audience... we travel, and our name travels.”

“We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we can be free onstage and in the studio recording. That way we can come up with original and creative stuff.”

“Life is too short to be serious.”

“As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle.”

“I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.”

“When I was touring with Peas, I was able to make the crowd feel the energy. When I said: 'put your hands up or make some noise,' they just did it.”

“It's more about the music and doing good shows than it is about our ethnicities. We're not trying to label ourselves as the all-around universal ethnic group. It's not a gimmick.”

“Brazilian music has always been a part of us, but it's even more valuable now because of the sentiment or the theme of the actual song. So I feel like 'Street Livin'' is paying homage to what we started and it's touching on a lot of serious themes to DACA, immigration reform, prison control... all the things we address in the video.”

“Black Eyed Peas music appealed to everybody and that's why we incorporated EDM influences, dance influences, house influences, and we mashed it up with the Black Eyed Pea melodic pop sensibility that still has bounce to it.”

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

“We're a positive type group, not a preachy group, but we want to be able to let the people know that we are conscious about what's going on in the world.”

“All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be selling out arenas than selling out of my trunk on the corner of my block.”

“We didn't expect 'Boom Boom Pow' to come out the box and be so successful.”