Pharrell Williams Quotes

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

You don't realize how beautiful an idea is until you do it with other people. There's this really shimmery, awesome thing when you start finishing a song - where the song just starts writing itself.

I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody else's record. To me, that doesn't show too much of your creative side unless you take a little piece and add it, almost like spice on a chicken.

That's what I've always wanted to do - work with my favorite writers and make something from scratch with them that we can feel like didn't exist before we came in the room.

I'm always creating. Whether I'm writing a lyric or making a beat, every day I'm doing something.

As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.

Being at the genesis of the creative process is definitely something I want to keep doing. It's just such a great buzz.

The ultimate point of a piece for me is that it drives the next one. Does it open new doors? That's the success of a piece.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.

I spend a lot of time working by myself developing songs, but I really need some other counterpart to help me pull it all together, because you go nuts working if I had to finish an entire project all within my own head.