‘Why am I crying on Oprah?’: Pharrell Williams cries tears of joy while watching global fans dance to Happy during interview
He may have written the happiest song of the year, but Pharrell Williams was reduced to tears during his interview with Oprah Winfrey.
The Happy singer sat down with the talk show host for an upcoming episode of Oprah Prime on her OWN Network, and was moved by a video shown to him of people dancing to his chart-topping song.
‘Why am I crying on Oprah?’ Pharrell said through tears as he was overcome with emotion.
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Happy tears: Pharrell Williams cries during Oprah Winfrey interview
‘It’s overwhelming because I love what I do and I just appreciate the fact that people have believed in me for so long that I could make it to this point, and feel, to feel that.’
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With some encouraging words from Oprah, Pharrell, 41, was also shown some pictures from his childhood.
During the interview, Williams – wearing one of his many distinctive Vivienne Westwood hats - discussed his rise to fame, his song-writing process and the music that influenced him to become a seven-time Grammy winning recording artist and producer.
Emotional: The singer watches a video montage of the many people who have created their own interpretations of the song Happy
Welling up: The singer was moved by a video of fans Oprah showed to him
Touched: In the video, fans were dancing to his hit song Happy
Tissue: Winfrey seemed to know the video would bring tears to Pharrell's eyes
‘My best songs come from two different ways,’ he says. ‘Either when I have a really good gut feeling about something, it's written in the shower or on a plane.’
‘Shower's good, isn't it?’ Oprah says. ‘There's something about the water.’
‘The water attracts your ear,’ he says. ‘You get distracted, and your mind wanders.’
But for his Despicable Me 2 song, Pharrell called it a ‘crazy, half-court shot.’
Low: The singer said he was at his lowest when he wrote the song for Despicable Me 2
Little Pharrell: Oprah had managed to get pictures of the singer as a child
Cute 'do: They discussed the music that he had listened to as a child
‘It's not because you're that good,’ Williams says. ‘It's because you're out of ideas.'
The interview also saw Pharrell talk about his critically-acclaimed new album ‘G I R L’, and his wedding last year to model and designer Helen Lasichanh.
But over the weekend, he was in Indio, California to perform at Coachella 2014, where he reminded the audience of just how many hit songs he’s been behind.
Big weekend: Pharrell performed at Coachella on Saturday
Drop It Like It's Hot: Snoop Dogg joined Pharrell onstage for his set to sing their classic hit
P Coachella 1 by YardieGoalsHe brought out Nelly for Hot In Herre, Snoop Dogg for Drop It Like It’s Hot, Gwen Stefani for Hollaback Girl, and Busta Rhymes for Pass The Courvoisier.
Some of the tracks were produced by Williams and Chad Hugo who made up the record production duo The Neptunes.
But Pharrell wasn’t too happy with the dust and wind experienced at Coachella as he told the packed crowd, ‘I wanted this s*** to be so much hotter but the dust and this f***ing wind…,’ according to The Guardian.
Hollaback Girl: Gwen Stefani joined Pharrell onstage during his set on Saturday night
Big guns: Busta Rhymes also performed with Pharrell at Coachella
P Coachella 2 by YardieGoals
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