What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
This tune is going out to Marconi!
Money is power; it can make things possible. But if I felt I was doing all this just to get as rich and as fat as possible, it just wouldn't be the same feeling.
The trouble with this interview is that you're interviewing me as though I'm a success, and I feel I'm a failure. I only see the disappointments. We're angry because everything we do turns to ash. We're not fulfilled yet. But there will be a time when our work is done.
I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realize it's not a box to begin with.
There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
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.
It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.
When someone is denying what they are, then that's when things start to spiral down.
I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
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.
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.
If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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 neighborhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
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.
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.
Code writers, they are my idols.
When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.
We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
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.
I've got Republican fans. Republicans like the Black Eyed Peas.
You want to play stadiums? You listen to U2. You study it for harmonics, the vocal placement, the freaking chord progressions, their lyrics. You study the production. You study it because studying that equals stadiums.
There's an entry point to any relationship.
We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.
