Quotes from Pharrell Williams

The keyboard is my journal.

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

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.

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

I don't know about style mistakes.

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

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

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

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

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

I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

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.

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

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.

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.