Pharrell Williams Quotations

The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the door, then they can dive deep within themselves and we can pull out something interesting that people have never heard before. It's the stuff that's - that no one's ever heard before is really interesting.

I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

'Entrepreneur 'just denotes that you recognize that you're doing things across disciplines and that you're blazing your own path.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgment.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.

I love what I do, I love my job.

You can't get anything done hanging out all day long.

When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

My style hero was' Batman.' Now it's Tony Stark.

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.

So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.

It's not possible to experience constant euphoria, but if you're grateful, you can find happiness in everything.

I think all music is a gift from God.

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

I'm like most people. We just concentrate on the present. I live right where the film is going through the film projector and it hits the light.

I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

You sort of have to become what you're wearing.

I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.

I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.

Right now, musically I'm inspired by everyday people.

You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.

I can't say what I'm going to wear all the time. The minute that I say that, then there's something in me that tips off and then I need to break out of that.

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.

I don't know, the artist thing is not me.

That was for a video, but the video to me is like the second part of the song because it is the interpretation given in a visual perspective.

This is the first award we've ever won so it will probably be the most memorable one. I can't believe that you guys chose us over other brilliant producers.

It's never about whether I'm the best-dressed man in the room. Instead it's about comfort and the flow. That's the only way to look good.

injecting dressed-up luxury into hip-hop style and thereby influencing a new generation of guys to consider more than just a pair of baggy jeans a reflection of their youthful vitality.

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

I prefer a woman's way of dealing with things.

Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.

If someone asks me what inspires me, I always say, "That which is missing," because I don't want to copy everything that's already happening. I feel like when you copy, you blend in, and when you blend in, you get lost.

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

That's our job as artists is to be honest about what we're feeling. And what we're feeling is not always going to be perfect. Sometimes it's going to be controversial. Sometimes it's going to piss a couple of people off. Sometimes it's going to motivate people. Sometimes it's going to inspire.

As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and really at the end of the day it's the fans that make that determination. Because if they don't buy it, stream it, share it or talk about it, then you're just a crazy person with an idea.

Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.

I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.

When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you've never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it's a good feeling. Musically that's what I aspire to do whenever I'm making an album.

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

Failure hurts pretty bad. But when you got good people around you they remind you that failure is actually just a lesson. It's how not to walk so you don't fall again.

Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.

I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.

I'm very lazy, it's just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That's why I feel so blessed.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

Clap along if you feel like that’s what you wanna do.

The element of harmony is super important.

I like anything sweet.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture.

If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.

Fashion is far more about really feel than science.

I just like when stuff feels good. 'Happy' feels good.

The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.

It's cool that you hear something, but what did you feel and what was your tactile and kinesthetic response to it? Those songs and creative sessions mean the most.

Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was...frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to...let it go.

Stars don't sit still, they twinkle

Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well

It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the kite. It's the air.

In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can't put me in a box that's all.