Pharrell williams quotes

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.

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

The new Black doesn't blame other races for our issues.

Be appreciative... that's what keeps me happy.

I answer questions the best I can.

Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.

That's what music should be like all the time. No stress, moving things forward, inspiring the youth, and doing it with style and vigor.

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.

I feel overworked, but when I don't work, I feel weird.

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.

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

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

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

If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow.

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

Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

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

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

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.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

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

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

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

Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don't mind staying apart like this.

I like to browse and just hang in bookstores.

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.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

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

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

I love what I do, I love my job.

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

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

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.

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

No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL

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.

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

I think all music is a gift from God.

Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It’s what you haven’t dreamt of yet that will blow your mind

I'm like the random guy who you would think I'm a computer freak and you would think that I'm a massive art collector, but I'm really not.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

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.

I stay grounded because everyone around me floats

Yo, you don't need nobody to represent you. You represent you. You represent the best version of who you could be. You go out there and change the world.

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.

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.

Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.

Fashion is more about feel than science.

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.

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.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

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

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.

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

There are tons of people who have made great music, great art, great whatever, but you don't know about them until the people lift you to a certain height so that you could even be visible and get any kind of recognition.

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.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

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

All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are

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.

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.

Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.

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.

Failure honestly can be like the best lesson and it's like the one that like God wants you to really pay attention to. That's why it hurts. The pain will help you remember how not to walk, what directions not to go.

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

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

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.

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 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.

I only entertain very close friends.

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

You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.

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.

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.

My ideal travel companions are my family.

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.

There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.

Women think about things in a holistic way that's not just so individual. And I'm saying the thing is, is if we had somebody looking after our country that thought about things as a whole, I just feel like it just would be different.

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.

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.

The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.

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.

That's sort of what I try to do with music: to harness whatever energy is already there and see where that momentum takes me. Sometimes you're spinning that oncoming momentum in a different direction, or sometimes you're coercing it to consider itself, or sometimes you're holding it up to a mirror. But I don't really like to interrupt and come in and destroy everything and start all over. I'm not that kind of guy.

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

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

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.

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

The element of harmony is super important.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

When you start trying to figure out what you're the best at, that's when you become delusional because you start to believe that. [you're the best] I'd rather continue to ride that mule than to ride the cocky horse. You see people spin out of control like that all the time. Those are the most tragic stories – the most gifted people who start to believe that it's really ALL THEM. It's not all you. It can't be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It's not the KITE – it's the AIR.

We're going to start seeing that it's actually less about race and more about class in the future. As much as we complain about the establishment discriminating against black people, we're going to start seeing that more of us are already in the establishment.

If you allow failure to take on more of a role in your life than possible, then you'll always look at it on the defense and you'll always shoot yourself down before it even goes anywhere.

It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.

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."

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

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.

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

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

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.

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

Stars don't sit still, they twinkle

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.

Sometimes I do have something in my head. But, for me, I think it usually ends up being about considering all of the elements, and trying to understand the distance from where we are to where we want to go.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

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

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'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I love making music, though. I love playing.

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