1. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
2. “That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.” – Pharrell Williams
3. “When I make music, I try to make something that is super colorful and something you’ve never heard before, so when you hear the whole album, it’s a good feeling. Musically that’s what I aspire to do whenever I’m making an album.” – Pharrell Williams
4. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
5. “The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It’s the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.” – Pharrell Williams
6. “I’m very lazy, it’s just that I love music and I love the things that I get to do. That’s why I feel so blessed.” – Pharrell Williams
7. “Whenever I think of the memories of you by my side, it leaves a smile on my lips and gives me the hope of the love that we will have again when you will return. That is why I don’t mind staying apart like this.” – Pharrell Williams
8. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
9. “Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you’re going.” – Pharrell Williams
10. “The new Black doesn’t blame other races for our issues.” – Pharrell Williams
11. “Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.” – Pharrell Williams
12. “I just do what I do. It’s not something that should be revered as something that’s great.” – Pharrell Williams
13. “I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don’t want to grow up.” – Pharrell Williams
14. “I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.” – Pharrell Williams
15. “Collaborate with people you can learn from.” – Pharrell Williams
16. “Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It’s the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life” – Pharrell Williams
17. “I’ve never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.” – Pharrell Williams
18. “I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.” – Pharrell Williams
19. “Whatever you want to do is more than possible. It’s what you haven’t dreamt of yet that will blow your mind” – Pharrell Williams
20. “I’m just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that’s the most important message.” – Pharrell Williams
21. “You learn from experiences, and I suppose that’s where I color most of my music, from experiences.” – Pharrell Williams
22. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
23. “I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.” – Pharrell Williams
24. “Creative people are often considered crazy but I believe crazy can be a good thing.” – Pharrell Williams
25. “Stars don’t sit still, they twinkle.” – Pharrell Williams
26. “I prefer a woman’s way of dealing with things.” – Pharrell Williams
27. “I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.” – Pharrell Williams
28. “I’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 Williams
29. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
30. “You sort of have to become what you’re wearing.” – Pharrell Williams
31. “Fashion is more about feel than science.” – Pharrell Williams
32. “Clear intentions and clear purpose begets clear results.” – Pharrell Williams
33. “Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.” – Pharrell Williams
34. “All kings and queens are not born of royal bloodlines. Some become royal because of what they do once they realize who they are.” – Pharrell Williams
35. “The motivation for me, was them telling me what I could not be.” – Pharrell Williams
36. “I learn a lot from my experiences and collaborations. Most of my collaborations are meant for me to learn.” – Pharrell Williams
37. “No human being is the same; we are like snowflakes, none of us are the same but we are all COOL.” – Pharrell Williams
38. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
39. “I answer questions the best I can.” – Pharrell Williams
40. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
41. “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 gonna be on.” – Pharrell Williams
42. “I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done.” – Pharrell Williams
43. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
44. “The 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 Williams
45. “There’s a key for every door, and if you can’t find it, you can make one. That’s always an option.” – Pharrell Williams
46. “Yo, 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 Williams
47. “Fashion is more than fell about science” – Pharrell Williams
48. “Trust me, when they read the [Oscar] results, my face was…frozen. But then I thought about it, and I just decided just to…let it go.” – Pharrell Williams
49. “I don’t know about style mistakes.” – Pharrell Williams
50. “Go inward, so that you can go onward and then upward.” – Pharrell Williams
51. “If you kiss a woman’s mind, her body will follow.” – Pharrell Williams
52. “The 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 Williams
53. “Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket” – Pharrell Williams
54. “When you’re playing, you’re playing something for the world to hear.” – Pharrell Williams
55. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
56. “There’s a key for every door, and if you can’t find it, you can make one. That’s always an option.” – Pharrell Williams
57. “I only entertain very close friends.” – Pharrell Williams
58. “If you kiss her mind, her body will follow.” – Pharrell Williams
59. “Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof.” – Pharrell Williams
60. “I don’t want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.” – Pharrell Williams
61. “In and out of dimensions I walk through walls, just saying you can’t put me in a box that’s all.” – Pharrell Williams
62. “You treat the air as a canvas and the paint is the chords that come through your fingers, out of the keyboard.” – Pharrell Williams
63. “There’s no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.” – Pharrell Williams
64. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
65. “It can’t be all you. Just like you need air to fly a kite. It’s not the kite. It’s the air.” – Pharrell Williams
66. “It’s not what you’re wearing, it’s the way you wear it.” – Pharrell Williams
67. “We’re nothing without science. Nothing.” – Pharrell Williams
68. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
69. “I just do what I do. There’s nothing to be admired or revered in it.” – Pharrell Williams
70. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
71. “You get used to it when you feel like you’re an artist.” – Pharrell Williams
72. “You ain’t heard that we swallow guys?” – Pharrell Williams
73. “I love what I do, I love my job.” – Pharrell Williams
74. “Don’t wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want…create your own constellation” – Pharrell Williams
75. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams
76. “The last thing you want to do as a creator is take something of someone else’s when you love him.” – Pharrell Williams
77. “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.” – Pharrell Williams
78. “You gotta go inward To experience the outer space That was built for you.” – Pharrell Williams
79. “Stay loyal to your creativity because it’s a gift.” – Pharrell Williams
80. “I think all music is a gift from God.” – Pharrell Williams
81. “So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That’s when you’re affecting culture.” – Pharrell Williams
82. “Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression.” – Pharrell Williams
83. “There are no mistakes or accidents. The present is malleable. Influence the odds. Free will is your pen, write your life.” – Pharrell Williams
84. “If you’re not learning, you’re wasting your time.” – Pharrell Williams
85. “You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.” – Pharrell Williams