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will.i.am
American
Musician
Born:
Mar 15
,
1975
Good
Like
Me
Music
People
You
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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
Politics
You
Business
Ignorance
People
Whatever
Rule
Corrupt
Line
Uneducated
Goes
Want
Manipulate
Illiterate
If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music.
will.i.am
Music
Good
You
Cooking
Yourself
Joy
Matter
Others
Chef
How
Same
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
Future
You
Change
Inclusive
Otherwise
Everyone
More
Same
Going
Just
Where
Want
Really
Included
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
Family
Me
Queen
Admirable
About
Seem
Something
Idea
Reminds
Like
She
Well
Well-Educated
Educated
Families
Them
Grandma
Royal
Royal Family
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
will.i.am
Music
Me
Mind
Something
Up
Sane
Therapy
Keeps
Fragile
Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.
will.i.am
Society
Complex
About
Could
Eisenhower
Us
Warned
Military-Industrial
Damage
I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.
will.i.am
Losing
Pay
Jobs
Mortgage
Because
Families
Banks
Rescue
Who
Homes
Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.
will.i.am
Success
Philanthropy
About
Having
More
Excited
Am
Really
Means
Thing
I'd like to see Apple and Dell factories be brought to the inner cities; in every project in America, there's some factory there, and it's abandoned, and I'd like to see those factories open and bring jobs to America.
will.i.am
Every
Project
Those
Abandoned
Cities
Jobs
See
Some
Brought
Factories
Factory
Open
Dell
Like
America
Apple
Inner
Bring
I am hip-hop!
will.i.am
Am
Hip-Hop
If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
will.i.am
You
Will
Writer
Never
Freestyle
Know
How
Block
I know people in gangs; I could have went down that route.
will.i.am
People
Down
Could
Know
Gangs
Route
When you follow your heart, you're never supposed to do things because of what you think people might say. You do it for the opposite reasons.
will.i.am
You
Heart
People
Follow Your Heart
Think
Say
Follow
Never
Supposed
Because
Opposite
Might
Your
Reasons
Things
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
Education
Good
Diabetes
Cold
Out
Jobs
Obesity
Knock
Make
Issues
Fist
Hand
Five
America
Lack
Homelessness
Good Education
I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
will.i.am
Emotions
Waves
Trends
Follow
It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied.
will.i.am
Dangerous
School
Ghetto
Bullied
Child
Being
Star
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
will.i.am
Wisdom
You
Yourself
People
Whatever
Everybody
Benefit
Spread
Antidote
Going
Want
Many
Keep
Vaccine
I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.
will.i.am
Music
You
Guess
Out
Exactly
Partying
Making
Go
Just
Figure
Who
There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'
will.i.am
You
Culture
Sometimes
Meet
Everyone
Says
Wow
Someone
More
Like
Supposed
Polite
Hang
Any
Chivalry
Then
Who
How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
will.i.am
Game
Plants
Pressing
Record
About
Record Stores
More
Charts
Records
Over
Industry
Because
How
Selling
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Going
Stores
Ever
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.
will.i.am
Today
Music
Listening
Space
Looking
Lyric
Kicking
Flying
Kid
Kids
Dinosaurs
Picking
Pictures
Like
Sheet
Around
Up
Wondering
Hanging
Wanna
Wants
Moving
Who
Why
If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.
will.i.am
You
Three
ADHD
Hooks
Minutes
Write
Songs
Most
Five
Listen
Happens
Ever
If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.
will.i.am
Mom
You
Books
Would
Liked
Up
Ask
Growing
Growing Up
Dr
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.
will.i.am
People
Websites
Think
Magazines
Also
Limiting
Hip-Hop
End
Up
Itself
Goes
Actually
Gatekeepers
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
will.i.am
Down
Spiral
Someone
Denying
Then
Things
Start
My attention span is very short.
will.i.am
Attention Span
Attention
Very
Short
Span
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