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.
Pharrell WilliamsAll kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are
Pharrell WilliamsI love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
Pharrell WilliamsAlber 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.
Pharrell WilliamsFashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.
Pharrell WilliamsYo, 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.
Pharrell WilliamsThe last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else's when you love him.
Pharrell WilliamsI 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.
Pharrell WilliamsIf 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.
Pharrell WilliamsIntake 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.
Pharrell WilliamsWe'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.
Pharrell WilliamsSome 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.
Pharrell WilliamsLiving 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.
Pharrell WilliamsI'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.
Pharrell WilliamsNo human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL
Pharrell WilliamsI'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.
Pharrell WilliamsThe 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.
Pharrell WilliamsFailure 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.
Pharrell WilliamsThe 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.
Pharrell WilliamsArtists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.
Pharrell WilliamsAnd 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.
Pharrell WilliamsIf 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.
Pharrell WilliamsFailure 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.
Pharrell WilliamsThe 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.
Pharrell WilliamsThe 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.
Pharrell WilliamsFrom a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.
Pharrell WilliamsThe 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.
Pharrell WilliamsAs 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."
Pharrell WilliamsI'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.
Pharrell WilliamsWhen 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.
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