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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.
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I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
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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.
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I don't want to tell people where to go get all my cool stuff.
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I can't sing “I Believe I Can Fly”. I sing that horrible. But I can sing “I Gotta Feeling” good. I wrote it for my capabilities. So I Gotta Feeling is just about let me make a song to inspire people to have a good time.
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Every election is important and each election says it's more important than the last.
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I was born and raised in the ghetto, on welfare, two minutes from homeless.
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Code writers, they are my idols.
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I don't follow waves or trends or emotions.
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Waste is only waste if we waste it.
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If you know how to freestyle, you will never have writer's block.
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If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.
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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.
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I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.
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There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
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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.
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The only colour I see is this wonderful green and blue planet.
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If countries were people, England and France would be old men. Italy would be dead. Compared with them, America is in its 20s.
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You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.
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We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.
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If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
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Not many people give you a vision of what the future will bring.
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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.
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It's never a waste of time or money to invest in yourself, no matter the source. True wealth begins inwards and emits its light outward into everything else, including the people you surround yourself with.