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You have to keep pushing yourself and reinventing yourself.

My computer's the first thing I'd save if my house was burning down.

We come up with slogans on the road and then we start putting them on the songs.

I have memories of being on the farm with my grandfather.

You also have to surround yourself with people who have the same dreams and values as you do.

If we go to a party, I'll just be chilling in the corner, absorbing everything.

DJing is one of my hobbies.

I would take the jeepney all the way to Angeles City, and that's how I got introduced to break dancing.

To me, it's pretty much the same thing - I just love playing music. But the cool thing about DJing is that I get to play other people's music, I can mix it up between our songs and a variety of musical genres. It also enables me to be more intimate with the audience.

We wanted to make music to fit with the way we live and celebrate life.

Stan Lee is like the universal hero. He got every culture together by storytelling. He gave every community their own hero to follow, in fiction and actually in factual life.

I remember I told my mom that I was scared. I asked her, how will I talk to everyone in English? And my mom gave me a dictionary, where I learned one day at a time.

Usually when you hear about rappers in Asia, they always try to be like gangsters and stuff like that and I don't get it.

All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.

Back then we were young, we would just mash all forms of music together and come up with something.

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls - he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did it in a really artistic way.

I am proud to be Pinoy and I never forget where I came from.

I've started my own record label - Jeepney Music - and I want to put out my own stuff and also stuff by other Filipino artists.

I'm proud of who I am, where I came from, what I was born into, and I would represent that till I die.

In break-dancing, you create your own style.

I doubted myself for a long time.

Everybody wanted to be Michael Jackson. That's how Will and I got to know each other.

Coming from the Philippines to the U.S. did shape me in that it gave me perseverance.

Not only I am an adoptee, but I also want to prove to everyone that being legally blind with a rare eye disease called Nystagmus that you can do and be anything if you put your mind to it and believe in yourself.

Queen Latifah once came up to me and said 'Bebot' was her favorite song. She said, 'I don't know what you're talking about, but it feels dope!'