Pharrell Williams Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

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

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

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

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

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

Collaborate with people you can learn from

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.