B. Smith Quotes

Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you.

I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was.

When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work.

To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.

I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.

I think that when I make a film, I'm terrified that people will come to work and work on something that they're not proud of.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

I'm used to people clapping at the end of the movie.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.

That's what art is, shocking people. Sometimes shocking yourself.

As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.

Don’t let haters get me off my grind. Keep my head up, I know I’ll be fine. Keep fighting until I get there. When I’m down and I feel like giving up I whip my hair back and forth.

I wear anything I feel like. If I want to put on a pair of Converse with a pencil stuck through them, I will.

I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths.

Wow, I did so much for young black girls and girls around the world.

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.

And then you think about what you think, which is very dangerous.

Me and Jaden just figured out that our voices sound like chocolate together. As good as chocolate tastes, it sounds that good.

Famous-ness is awesomeness but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.

I'm not really sick of people whipping their hair. It doesn't really get old. They're fans and I love them! It's just a fun game to play.

I like eating pepperoni. I heat it up in the microwave and then I let it roast and then I eat it with cheese.

I like to eat cheese out of a bowl everyday.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

Do you know what it's like to be the kind of girl that boys never talk to and then suddenly, a boy talks to you?

Obviously there's so much about me on the Internet that you can turn against me, and you can make me into any person you want.

It's pretty easy to lose money on tour - most bands do on their first couple of tours. We're more established, but I think it was just poorly booked. It was a mess from the get-go.

What I wanted was just to make music, and so, originally I just wanted to hide behind the album cover of the last record, and I wanted it to be almost anonymous.

Music is an opportunity to say every single thing that you want to say. People will pore over whatever you say and however you say it and, for me, it represents complete freedom of speech.

Three years between records is longer than average. Double albums are much more of a statement. I really wanted to put myself out there as much as I possibly could.

I wanted to show a different side of ourselves. I wanted to see in what ways I could explore something new. I felt like working on a double record would give people a lot to have.

I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.

People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.

My mom worked at [American] Vogue before I was born. She has always been fashion-minded. I grew up with original Yves Saint Laurent sketches on the wall in our house. A lot of that rubbed off on me.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.

I feel like every great record is like a world in itself.

There's a lot of stuff that I've been through in my life in the past couple of months that I don't really want to share with people who are close to me, but I have no option if it's my art.

Nobody really wanted to do that one European tour. For one, it was budgeted to lose money. They would've made something, but I would've lost a lot of money.

There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.

I went with Beach Fossils and we played 40 shows because we wanted people to see us.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.

I spent my life working before I started band. I worked construction, landscaping. I worked in kitchens, cleaned dishes. I worked demolition.