Pharrell Williams Quotes

My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in.

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it.

I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.

Once I took to Twitter and shared those jokes, they became a huge hit. My following grew, and some of the posts got thousands of retweets. With so many shares, money from sponsors followed.

I would not understand when people will tell me that 'Tum hi ho' has got more than 1 million views on YouTube. I was like, 'How does it make a difference?' Later, I would go to YouTube and see songs of Rihanna, Enrique etc. and would see their hits. Then I came to know the importance. Nowadays, you can judge from these sites how big is a sing.

It is the Internet that changes: the Internet is not just a language; it modifies relationships, the way we look at the world.

I just find it so weird that I can come to another continent and have people turn up. I guess it's just the internet... It just makes it so available to everyone.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.

Don't underestimate the power of the Web.

The Internet has changed everything. People will be discovered online. People buy music online. It's a completely different way to get entertainment.

Social media stars are kind of taking the traditional route, like movies.

I started using Twitter a lot and realized I had a lot of fans. Then I saw that I can share my music on Twitter and share my YouTube videos on Twitter. That's how I knew social media was going to be a platform to show my music. That's how I started. I started with Twitter.

Thriving in the digital space is about constant commitment and engagement rather than being hit-driven like traditional media.

The Jake Paulers are the strongest army out there. Dab.

The videos I put on YouTube have expanded my audience beyond what I could have done at just a Hamburger Mary's. People saw the videos, started booking me, and literally 40-plus countries and thousands of gigs later I can basically say that YouTube has bought me a house.

The best part of social media is that you can reach a lot of people. But that's also the worst part of social media.

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

We put something on Instagram, and it gets reposted, and it's everywhere, and a minute later it's gone, over. I don't see that as a negative thing; it's the way my mind works, too.

People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens of ways to consume my offerings, and a lecture in a large venue is really only just one of them. So I have no concerns about how much access people would have to me no matter what is the capacity of your pocketbook.

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

The world is changing and how we reach people has changed. It's no longer throwing ads on your network and putting up billboards. It's now social media and things move virally, and the networks haven't always caught up to that.

The reality is if you take any three people and look at their cellphones or blackberries and facebook pages, you can get to almost everywhere in the country, because we're networked together in a way that is incredibly powerful.

At least 35 years ago, you didn't have the internet telling you every single thing that happened in every school and college around the world.

I am the queen of hashtags! I love hashtags. I think in hashtags. I wish I could write everything in hashtag.