Rihanna
I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.Collection: Great
God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.Collection: God
I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.Collection: Fear
When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.Collection: Life
I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I'm not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that's why they identify with me.Collection: Women
That's all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. 'Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they're also the most doubtful beings. They'll never know - we'll never know - how powerful we are.Collection: Positive
If you don't live your life, then who will?Collection: Life
There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.Collection: Fear
Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.Collection: Music
I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.Collection: Life
I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.Collection: Cool
Music helps me tell my story. That's where I can really be heard. But there's so much focus on the things that aren't music.Collection: Music
People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.
At first, I didn't really use anything in the social network world. I was so anti-social network, which is kind of ironic. I actually first started on a chat room on my fan site.
I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.
Everybody has their thing they like or don't like to see. It's all in your head. That's why people take their own pictures, because it's difficult for someone else to capture what you seek.
I don't have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can't even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It's just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.
I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!
I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.
It is one thing to record an album but it's a huge difference when people play it and listen to it and embrace it the way that I do. It has always been my dream to get my music out to the world and have people hear it.
I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.
Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.
When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.
I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.
I have such incredible experiences in my life.
I don't like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won't hurt you. They'll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.
My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It's not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark... other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.
I have a lot of other stuff to accomplish before I get to kids. Whenever the time is right, I'll just know. If I had a girl, she'd probably be really rebellious. She would be like a bundle of karma. I would love to bring them up in Barbados.
Oh my God - this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.
It's easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.
I can't make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I'm gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo - you can never get away from it.
Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.
The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.
I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.
Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys' table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that's automatic; it's not prejudice.
The stylish kids on the street, they're the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they're doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it's like, why not go directly to the source?
I love making music. That's what I love to do. So I don't feel like there's any need to take a break unless I want to.
I find that when I get on stage now, I don't want to perform a lot of my songs because they don't feel like me. So I want to make songs that are timeless.
I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.
My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it's hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.
I could never give relationship advice to anybody!
I just love working with Eminem. He's just one of my favorite rappers, and his lyrics - he's a true poet, and I enjoy that about him.
I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.
I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.
I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'
When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I'll still be fly.