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Pharrell Williams: 'Women are my muse, I love them'

'Happy' superstar Pharrell Williams has revealed that he has a lost of respect for women because he values their importance. 

Speaking to London's Time Out magazine, the hitmaker explained that females are just as relevant as men and he even said that his music's muse is women: "My muse for it was women. I love them... because I know their importance. If women wanted to shut down this country, economically, they could just not go to work and the UK would be finished."

Referring to the importance of gender equality, Williams added that he hopes there will come a time where pay will be the same for both men and women: "And there's going to be a huge shift... There will be a time when women get paid as much as men. There will be a time when, like, 75 percent of our world leaders will be women."

He also admitted that the controversial 'Blurred Lines' music video wasn't sexist in his opinion because the women were only dancing and weren't doing anything particularly provocative besides from not wearing clothes: "Is it sexist when you walk around in a museum and a lot of the statues have their boobs out? The women in that video weren't doing anything sexual: they were only dancing."

"Just because they had their boobs out, that was 'sexist'. I didn't do anything sexually suggestive to any of those women, I wouldn't allow it."

 

 

Watch Williams' music video for 'Happy' below: