“I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Pea...” — Taboo Quote

I'm building my own brand outside of the Peas. It's not Black Eyed Peas, it's Zumbao. Zumbao is different from the Peas because it's all on me and I can't feed off of anybody other than me.

Before the music and before the fame, I loved Apl for Allan Pineda, for being a brother that he is and for the inspiration - for him to actually come to the States from the Philippines and make something of his life. That's inspirational.

Most of my career, people have the misconception about me as being threatening and scary, and having an intense look, but that's not the real me.

Apl introduced me to all the Pinays he knew, and so I married one.

You really need to stop and appreciate what you have, the love you have from your family, your friends, the love that you have for yourself.

I surf more now for other people than myself. I feel a lot of support from people wanting me to do well, and I feed off that. I can send a positive message to people from what I do.

To see my little brother Chandler outdoing me, it's great; I want to be able to cross-market and feed off his star power.

I feel like, if you have a big platform, please use it for great... just like me, just like a bunch of people are. It takes two seconds. It's not gonna mess up your Instagram feed, you can do it.

Everybody tells me they don't know how I have so much energy, and I think people feed off that, which is great.

Everything I do is like tough love; everything I put out there in the universe is me trying to feed you. I really care.