Quotes from Pharrell Williams

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

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

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

My ideal travel companions are my family.

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

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 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.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

The element of harmony is super important.

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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 think all music is a gift from God.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I only entertain very close friends.