Rihanna Quotations

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

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

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.

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

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

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

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

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!'

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

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

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 bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

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.

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.

If someone is right for you, you'll know it.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

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.

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.

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.

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

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

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

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

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

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

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

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

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

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

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.

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

When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made me feel was priceless. And in a blink of an eye, my whole life changed. Everything that I knew was different. I never thought I'd feel that pain in my life.

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

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

Single life is so overrated. It sucks.

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

I like Toronto; the people are really chill.

Nicki Minaj has a better booty; but I have better shoes.

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.

When a door closes you have two choices: give up, or keep going

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.

Im only as good as my team, I love you guys so much

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

The most important thing is to be happy and true to yourself. I don't want to look back at this in 30 years from now and say, 'I did it all to make them happy and I didn't enjoy.'

She's Beyoncé, and I'm [Jay-Z's] new protégée. When we see each other we say hi. We're not enemies, but we're not friends friends.

If I wasn't a singer, I think I'd be studying to be a psychologist.

Took an oath, I'ma stick it out to the end.

We found love in a hopeless place.

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.

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

I don't have anything to hide.

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

People hesitate to follow their desires because they don't know how to divide their soul from their spirit.

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

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

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

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

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

I don't ever want to have to depend on a relationship. I think it's a really special thing to find love. It's beautiful. Nothing can match it. But I want to make sure that I find other things in life that I love besides . . . love.

Tears were for the weaker days, I'm stronger now

All humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes. I mean, I could see myself in a relationship with a girl.

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

I happen to think like a man, and do certain things guys like to do. I grew up around boys.

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

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.

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.

Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.

If I'm wearing a top, I don't wear a bra. If I'm wearing a bra, I just wear a bra.

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.

They're gonna keep knocking away until all this comes crashing down. But I'm not gonna ever crash. I'm in control.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I just really wanted to be myself. I wanted to be sassy, the attitude, all these things that I am.

I have friends from rock stars to Rastas; I don't even know what an unexpected friend is.

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.

Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn't go without the other.

I absolutely do prefer a dominant guy. I play a very dominant role in my life, in every other aspect of it. And I like to feel like a lady still, at some point. I feel like that's the time when a guy really gets to be a man, and I get to be a woman. And if I'm being a man in the bedroom too, there's nothing really in it for me.

I stand up for what I believe in and a lot of the time that can be against people's opinions.

It’s amazing how lonely you can feel and like nobody understands…The moment you are vulnerable, someone always reaches out….They go through the same things. I want them to feel comfortable knowing that I have flaws as wells. I want them to know those flaws. I’m afraid of the pedestal…I want to be a peer to my fans

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

I hate drama. But at the same time, nothing bothers me more than when life's perfect. And that's the sick part. I just love a challenge, whether it's a relationship, my career, clothing...

I want to be the black Madonna.

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.

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

Put your troubles aside and start living.

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.

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.