Rihanna Quotes

I want to be the black Madonna.

Put your troubles aside and start living.

People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good

Anything that feels familiar and comfortable [is home]. It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados. It's warm, it's beautiful, it's the beach, it's my family, it's the food, it's the music. Everything feels familiar, feels right and feels safe. So, Barbados is home for me.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

I never play the victim, I'd rather be a stalker.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

Never a failure,always a lesson

It's like you're screaming but no one can hear. You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important, that without them, you feel like nothing. No one will ever understand how much it hurts. You feel hopeless, like nothing can save you. And when it's over and it's gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you can have the good.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

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.

If you want to do something for Jah, then dont associate with people who do nothing

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

I don't think I could walk down the street wearing bubbles or a dress made of ham. What Lady GaGa has done has been kind of amazing. I am the opposite. I wear clothes I would wear on the street. I'm all about a real look.

The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually it just feels like it works.

I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool,

I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there's just way too much dirt, so you might as well
just be up front about it.

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it.

The thrill in fashion for me is taking a risk and daring myself to make it work. Even when I go shopping, I always buy something twisted and I know I'm going to have to figure out somehow to pull it off and make it my own.

It started off really ... claustrophobic. I feel like I was really really protected. Really guarded with myself. I feel like they [Def Jam] were giving me the blueprint and I couldn't get with that

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

I wouldn't want to promote teenage girls having sex. But the reality is, it's happening, and they're just a little too young to understand how careful they need to be. That's a big battle with me, because I'm 23, and a lot of my fans are eight years younger than I am, so there's a bit of a tug-of-war there. I want to set the right example and, at the same time, live my life.

Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.

My story is definitely going to be a happily ever after, no matter what.

Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I have several videos on my phone that I've never released. Having dance parties in our car, don't be jealous!

I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.

There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and get tested to know our status, and spread the word.

As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

When it comes to fashion, I like to see individuality.

Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.

Single life is so overrated.

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

I don't have anything to hide.

We found love in a hopeless place.

I have always loved kids. They are little adults with so much personality, and it is fun to work with that. Whether that means donating school supplies or medication, or [using my celebrity] to get them a bone marrow transplant, I want to help.

I have too many clothes, I have too many options.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

Something is wrong with Eminem. He has so much in his mind that I almost feel lucky that he has music. I feel like he has so much in his head that music is such a great release for him. He is one of my favorite artists. Absolutely.

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.

You the one that I dream about all day. You the one that I think about always. You are the one so I make sure I behave! My love is your love, your love is my love.

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.

Find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

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.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

[G]enetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

If you sexy and you know it and you ain't afraid to show it. Put a candle on my motherfu*king back baby blow it.

Young people, we have this thing about us, this invincibility, because we're young and we're growing up and we want to have fun, and we want to be crazy, and nothing's wrong with that unless you're not being responsible.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can't wait to do more.

I am never satisfied; I always want more. I always want to get better. I always want to climb another step.

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.

I have an ugly day every month; pimples on my face, I'm fat and in a bad mood. It's more like an ugly week!

I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them, and in those cases I just have to handle them accordingly. But I do not swim with sharks ... sharks swim with sharks.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.

Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.

Only one party sticks out in my mind as a kid. It was the best party ever. I was 5 years old, and my mom dressed me up in a church dress and stockings to go to the party and park.

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.

Fashion for me is another way I get to express myself creatively. It is one of the fun things I get to do: to play dress-up, and create outfits and looks that aren't typical. I am an artist, so I like creating things. Shoes are my favorite thing.

Music is in my DNA!

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

I'd love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Nothing in life
comes easy.
Everything
comes with
a sacrifice

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.

I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion.

Love isn't complicated, people are,

I never eat salad. I make sure I don't put a lot of junk into my system, but I hate vegetables!