I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me. Willow Smith More Quotes by Willow Smith More Quotes From Willow Smith Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart. Willow Smith breathing heart order I want to embrace my full self, as natural as I can be. Willow Smith self natural want Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad. Willow Smith caring mind thinking The only thing that really matters is spreading love and light and acceptance and unity throughout the entire world in any way that you possibly can. Willow Smith unity light acceptance If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that. Willow Smith soul heart people If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be. Willow Smith dont-like-me positive-energy people Don’t be afraid to be yourself and don’t let anybody tell you that that’s wrong. Because the best thing is you. Willow Smith best-things being-yourself You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there's an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for. I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don't see in this world. Willow Smith rocks beautiful art Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird. Willow Smith comparing-yourself compare bird What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society says people should be focusing on - it's something spiritual that only certain people can grasp and accept. And that's how I act and move in the world today. Willow Smith spiritual people moving The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice. Willow Smith mom forever advice I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, 'Yep, yep, I'm looking so sick.' But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in. Willow Smith clothes fashion sick I can never tell what I'm gonna wear. I kind of just put on whatever feels right. Sometimes that's Converse and a T-shirt, sometimes it's Givenchy heels and leather pants. Willow Smith leather-pants kind sometimes There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing. Willow Smith best-things novel writing When I can see someone that's posting the way that they're thinking about what's happening in the world right now or even art that they've created, it inspires me to do the same. It makes me turn off my phone and go paint a painting or go hike a mountain or go record a song. Those are the kind of things that social media helps me do. But it also can make me sit in my room and not do anything. Willow Smith song art thinking Growing up, all I saw was my parents trying to be the best people they could be, and people coming to them for wisdom, coming to them for guidance, and them not putting themselves on a pedestal, but literally being face-to-face with these people and saying, "I'm no better than you, but the fact that you're coming to me to reach some sort of enlightenment or to shine a light on something, that makes me feel love and gratitude for you." They always give back what people give to them. And sometimes they keep giving and giving and giving. Willow Smith gratitude growing-up light I mean, time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please. That's how I know it doesn't exist. Willow Smith please stupid mean If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard. Willow Smith one-thing hard ifs Not a lot of siblings have opportunity [of realizing ourselves and realizing each other], because they're always being pushed together so much. They need their time apart in order to realize themselves and realize who they are. Willow Smith sibling opportunity order That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself. Willow Smith sometimes people art
