Rihanna Quotes

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

People take the little bit of information they’re fed, and they draw a picture of who you are. Most of the time, it’s wrong.

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.

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.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Honestly, I’ve been thinking lately about how boring I am. When I do get time to myself, I watch TV.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

If I ever go to West Africa, it would probably be for a free concert. I would want to do something for the people there. Maybe we can make a whole event, the way Bob Marley would have done it. Just for the people. And if they climb over the gate, let them climb over the gate.

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

I don’t have anything to hide.

Steven Spielberg was my childhood hero.

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.

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

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.

I like to be creative.

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.

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.

If I cry, it’s because I’m very angry and I can’t do anything about it because I’ve run into a dead end. That’s when the tears would come down.

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’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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

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

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.

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.

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.

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.

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

I am happy and I’m single.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

I don’t do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

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.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

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

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

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.