30 quotes by will.i.am

“Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.”— will.i.am

“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.”— will.i.am

“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”— will.i.am

“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.”— will.i.am

“There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.”— will.i.am

“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.”— will.i.am

“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.”— will.i.am

“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.”— will.i.am

“If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there's a bank. There's grocery stores and big houses - but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house.”— will.i.am

“Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.”— will.i.am

“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.”— will.i.am

“You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.”— will.i.am

“I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.”— will.i.am

“My mom's discipline worked out perfectly. I wouldn't change a thing.”— will.i.am

“My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.”— will.i.am

“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”— will.i.am

“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”— will.i.am

“I remember when I was 11, I told my mom, 'One day I'm going to buy you a house.' And she said, 'Boy, don't you be making promises you can't keep.' I was like: 'No, Ma, it's not a promise. I'm going to buy you a house one day.'”— will.i.am

“I don't like politics.”— will.i.am

“There's an entry point to any relationship.”— will.i.am

“Romantic love is painful.”— will.i.am

“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”— will.i.am

“Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.”— will.i.am

“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”— will.i.am

“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”— will.i.am