BRIAN GRAZER: Hello! It's BG PHAR...

BRIAN GRAZER: Hello! It's BG

PHARRELL WILLIAMS: What's up man? BG: I'm a little jet-lagged. I just got back to looks Angeles from London late last night because I'm producing The Da Vinci collection of laws there. When you fly west, the goal is to stay up as drawn out as possible, so I was up for 20 hours. on the contrary I'm really excited to do this with you. You're coming gone out with your first solo album now, and you've worked with all these great persons in music, across all these genre First, notwithstanding that I want to get into to what degree you go about things. With all these opportunities and forks in the road before you, for what reason do you make decisions about which way to go?

PW: The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, yet the cards in and of themselves don't read common way or the other. It's up to you to domestic circle in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand. mostly of the time, I view what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based forward my gut-and I don't always make the right ones

BG: What informs your gut? What information do you bombard yourself with in order to inform your instincts to such a degree you're not just a dilettante?

PW: Well, whether we know it or not, everything we anticipate at is intake. We take in a thousand times more things than we think we do. We descry everything, but it's up to us to realize what's actually there. That, to me is for what cause you find the truth in things and, hopefully what you're really looking for.

BG: Are there any specific environments that you like to be in that really help clarify things for you? It could be a coffee store or anywhere, really.

PW: Bookstores. I like to tender twigs of shrubs and trees and just hang in bookstores.

BG: Alone? Or with people?

PW: Alone. Another would be when I am listening to music forward the iPod. And a third would be when I'm flying in succession charter jets. [Grazer laughs] I don't know if it's the air urgency or whatever, but being that high in the air just looks to make things super clear. Maybe it's just psychological. Another place where I prepare a lot of work done is in the shower.

BG: in such a manner how do you decide who you're going to work with and who you're going to give your creative central nature to? Because I'm looking at the populace you've worked with, and I papal court Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Usher, Nelly Snoop Dogg--all these tribe from all these different cultures

PW: It's just a embowel feeling. I always remember that music is something I'm extremely lucky to be able to do. Teddy Riley's studio was literally pair blocks from my high drill in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He left fresh York, and out of all the places in the world he mov to Virginia Beach, which is not a music industry-type place. in such a manner I got involved in the music industry, and it was single a few months ago that I really realized for what reason fortunate I am. I do something that the bulk of mankind can't see and touch. You can hear music, moreover you cannot physically stick your hands not at home and feel it unless you're standing in van of a speaker, which is a transmission and a simulation, on the contrary not the real thing. It's like the deity or the wind.

BG: divine being wind, and music.

PW: You can't physically touch any of them, further you can feel all of them.

BG: When you listen to your iPod, is there any music that you like turning forward that guarantees you'll get into a convenient space?

PW: That would be A Tribe Called Quest

BG: Really? Can I ask you which album?

PW: Either their first, People's Instinctive Travels [1990], or their third, Midnight Marauders [1993] That collection is just brilliant.

BG: I think I rode around with Q-Tip formerly in Russell Simmons's car. I'll have to procure those records.

PW: It's moderately beautiful strong stuff.

BG: with equal reason is there anyone you haven't worked with yet you really look up to or that you would like to work with?

PW: I would regard with affection to collaborate with Prince. I'm not equal much of a collaborator, yet When I do something, I just do it. I think me and Eminem could do something crazy together. We haven't done that besides I don't know him excessively well, but we met a hardly any times.

BG: I got to know him a bit while we were working upon 8 Mile [2002], and I lov him. I conceit he was really responsible and collected and you guys have a similar work ethic. In deciding who you want to work with and the schemes you choose to take forward do you ever think about staying relevant? Does that study ever enter the equation?

PW: In a actual weird way, I think my skin just sort of changes each few years. Pharrell the one is never going to change, moreover before the shell becomes too popular, I like to switch it up Like, a Ferrari is a Ferrari, yet they won't keep the same material part style beyond three years. I want to expres myself, if it were not that I never really want to expres myself in the same way above and over again.

BG: Do you view a lot of movies?

PW: confident I try.

BG: Would you forever want to act?

PW: No, I don't think in the way that I aspire to be the Wizard--I don't think Dorothy was meant for me BG: [laughs] for a like reason your new album, In My Mind [Star Trak/Interscope]--is there a certain number of sort of a heartbeat idea or theme that is embodied in the record?