Pharrell Williams
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.
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 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.
I think all music is a gift from God.
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.
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 love making music, though. I love playing.
I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.
Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.
When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.
For me, nothing is given.
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 only entertain very close friends.
I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.
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.
Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellationCollection: Stars
Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your lifeCollection: Journey
Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.Collection: Creativity
You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.Collection: Order
There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.Collection: Keys
Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.Collection: Purpose
Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocketCollection: Heart
Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.Collection: Fashion
It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.Collection: Fashion
If you're not learning, you're wasting your time.Collection: Wasting Your Time
There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.Collection: Mistake
The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.Collection: Motivation
Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It’s what you haven’t dreamt of yet that will blow your mindCollection: Blow
The best work comes from people who are motivated by crisis. When something stops their original idea, they respond by coming up with something even better.Collection: Ideas
First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.Collection: Morning
Collaborate with people you can learn fromCollection: People
That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.Collection: Special
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.Collection: Missing
Stars don't sit still, they twinkleCollection: Stars
I stay grounded because everyone around me floatsCollection: Grounded
If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow.Collection: Kissing
Be appreciative... that's what keeps me happy.Collection: Appreciative
The New Black doesn’t blame other races for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation: it’s a mentality and it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side you’re going to be on.Collection: Dream
"Happy" feels good... I just like when stuff feels good.Collection: Feel Good
I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.Collection: Emotional
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: New York
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."Collection: Song
And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can’t? What is this? This is 2014.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Creativity
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.Collection: Song
A lot of my creative projects are inspired and driven by technology and style. My mission is to recycle as much plastic possible in my lifetime and beyond in the form of high quality products.Collection: Technology
More than anything, I wanted to make sure that everybody was a pusher of difference. And they had to be able to do it in a communicative way, not esoterically. Because there are a lot of people who push things forward but sometimes only you and two people out of 500 in the room get it, but you want somebody who has mastered their craft so well that an 8-year-old gets it just like an 80-year-old gets it. They get the same visceral feeling.Collection: Years