A biography for will.i.amhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm like a mama's boy and stuff.”
“Tom Jones is like igloo-cool.”
“Romantic love is painful.”
“If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.”
“As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me.”
“I'm fascinated with quantum physics.”
“I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.”
“I will not start an initiative until I've spent my own money. Because if I spend my own money, people who want to get on board afterwards know that I am serious about it.”
“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”
“You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.”
“If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.”
“'Transformers' inspired me as a kid.”
“Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.”
“I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.”
“Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.”
“Everything affects hip-hop. The question is, how does it affect the money that corporations are going to invest to put out different kinds of hip-hop?”
“We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.”
“If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.”
“Hip-hop is limiting itself and that also goes for editorially. Magazines and websites are the gatekeepers of what people think hip-hop is, but they actually end up limiting what hip-hop can be.”
“I can't be quiet, as that's when I notice the ringing in my ears.”