Pharrell says writing his song 'Happy' actually 'broke' him

Pharrell Williams' life story is officially coming to the big screen. The famous producer's Lego biopic, piece by pieceis available to watch at your nearest cinema and to promote it, Pharrell talks about some key moments in his career.

During an interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe, Pharrell made a shocking confession about his upbeat hit “Happy.” The title contained in Dispicable Me 2 and its soundtrack served as positive reinforcement for listeners. But according to Pharrell, the banger “broke him.”

“I had written nine songs that were rejected,” he said. “It just took so long before you ran out of ideas and asked yourself a rhetorical question and came back with a sarcastic answer, and that was 'Happy.' How do you make a song about a person who is so happy that nothing can bring them down? And I responded sarcastically and put it to music, and that sarcasm became a song, and that broke me.”

However, Pharrell managed to find the silver lining by saying, “It's so crazy that we as individuals think that everything comes from us.” Your ideas, everything you get, comes from a library of existence. Nothing is new under the sun.”

In the past, Pharrell admitted that he got annoyed with the record after a while, just like the rest of us did after it became inevitable.

Watch Pharrell Williams and Morgan Neville's full interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe above.