Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (/fəˈrɛl/; born April 5, 1973) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and film producer.
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.
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.
Week before that, I was out in Italy Italian heart-throbs could not get rid of me
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.
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.
Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.
Music is what I love to do. Music, fashion, a couple of chairs, I'm cool, I'm grateful.
I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
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.
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. "
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.
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.
As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.
Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.
When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.
I love making music, though. I love playing.
The element of harmony is super important.
I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.
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.