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Life is too short to be serious.
I'm connected with my indigenous roots.
Let's face it - negativity sells records.
Hip-hop is huge in Canada, in Australia - everywhere.
I've never been the attention-getter of Black Eyed Peas.
Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.
We have a global audience… we travel, and our name travels.
My life got turned upside down when I found out I had cancer.
Apl introduced me to all the Pinays he knew, and so I married one.
The Black Eyed Peas as a whole is something I always look forward to.
We didn't expect 'Boom Boom Pow' to come out the box and be so successful.
Cancer - there's no prejudice. There's no age limit. It can happen to anybody.
I wake up every day with a smile - I'm a blessed man, and every day is special.
Fergie's married. I'm married. A lot of the band members have families as well.
We're not just three guys in a rap act. We want all sorts of people at our gigs.
My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.
The thing about Black Eyed Peas is we're very humorous. All we do is laugh all day.
We don't get concerned with stuff like pressure. We just do what makes us feel good.
If we're going to be on this futuristic 3008 vibe, we need to step up our performance.
It was great to have my son see if you chase your dreams sometimes they become reality.
Fergie brought her own style. She is a fashion icon, but she's lovable and approachable.
Hey, I was one of those hip-hop kids who used to hate on things that would become popular.
I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.
Will.i.am is the genius of the group. He's the one that keeps everything together creatively.
I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.
Black Eyed Peas is me, Will and apl.de.ap. That is who Black Eyed Peas is. We are the sole members.
I'm happily married; I love to spend time with my wife going to movies, restaurants and travelling.
I didn't want to be a deadbeat dad, so I said, 'OK, my mission is to provide for my son in the future,'
It's powerful when you're able to celebrate your culture, but also bring the arts and music to the masses.
We're able to blend and rock any crowd. If you put us on a tour with Garth Brooks, we'll take his crowd too.
Even if we are 50 or 60 years old, if we can do it we will continue to create content that pushes the envelope.
In order to maintain your longevity, you have to know the business. It's not about just rapping and performing.
We thought: 'Let's write songs about our relationships, the world, our anxieties - let's make the most of this.'
Now that I'm older, I appreciate my culture and I appreciate Spanish. I feel bad I didn't pick up on it earlier.
As long as you're having fun and being positive and progressive, I'm going to say you're living a Zumbao lifestyle.
We're best friends that get to travel the world and create a movement. That's what's special about Black Eyed Peas.
We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.
It's all about evolution and for us, we try to think outside the box and not try to duplicate what we've done in the past.
Our daughter is a miracle baby, and having time with her and my sons means everything to me - they're why I kept fighting.
That's the beauty of Black Eyed Peas, we don't pigeonhole ourselves into just one category. We're the chameleons of hip-hop.
It takes one person to stand up for what he believes in. I believe there's been an injustice in Arizona. I oppose Bill 1070.
If I was going to play any video game, it'd be things like 'Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!,' 'Street Fighter' and 'Mortal Kombat.'
When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.
In Vietnam, we can go and get big audiences, and we've been going there for so long. A lot of other hip-hop groups don't even go.
Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired by his culture.
I emptied the trash and wiped down tables. But my job that I remember the most was picking up horse manure for the Electrical Parade.
I'm a normal person just like everybody else. I just may have a different job. But I have kids, wife. I bleed, I went through cancer.
We grew up with break-dancing and MCing, the old school, that whole era of just having a good time and knowing that the music was good.
I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.
I know that being in the entertainment business… my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot and I wasn't really present.