1. “Don’t hide from who you are.”

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

3. “Be a girl with a mind, a bitch with an attitude, a lady with class.”

4. “Because tomorrow, I’m still going to be the same person—I’m still going to do what I want to do.” 

5. “Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past.”

6. “The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.”

7. “Hurt me with the truth. Don’t comfort me with a lie.” 

8. “I’m crazy, and I don’t pretend to be anything else.” 

9. “People gonna talk whether you doing good or bad.”

10. “It’s tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.”

11. “She could beat me, but she could not beat my outfit.”

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12. “I stand up for what I believe in, and a lot of the time, that can be against people’s opinions.”

13. “Sure, you wish you did some things differently. But there is no sense in becoming burdened with regret over things you have no power to change.” 

14. “I believe everybody’s an individual. You can’t judge someone based on someone else’s actions.”

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

16. “I could never identify with that word—’weak.'”

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17. “I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about—one of the best things you can sing about.”

18. “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.” 

19. “You may never be good enough for everybody, but you will always be the best for somebody.”

20. “I hate how much I love you.”

21. “Nobody can understand what you’re feeling unless they burn the way you burned.”

22. “If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.”

23. “One of these days, maybe your magic won’t affect me and your kiss won’t make me weak.”

24. “It’s awkward. It’s awkward because I still love him. My stomach drops and I have to maintain this poker face and not let it get to the outer part of me. I have to maintain that and suppress it.”

25. “Settling is the worst feeling in the world.”

26. “Don’t lower your standards for anything or anyone.”

27. “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.”

28. “You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that important, that without them, you feel like nothing.”

29. “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.”

30. “I could never give relationship advice to anybody!”

31. “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.”

32. “If your hands’ busy texting, I’m mad at you. I only want you on your phone if you’re taking pictures of me, okay?”

33. “I don’t ever want to have to depend on a relationship. I want to make sure that I find other things in life that I love besides love.”

34. “If we together and ya ex die and you cry, you single.”

35. “Wow, how disappointing was that question. I’m happy and I’m single if that’s what you were really asking.”

36. “You’re so amazing, you took the time to figure me out.”

37. “The minute you learn to love yourself, you won’t want to be anyone else.”

38. “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.”

39. “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.” 

40. “I think a lot of people are afraid of being happy because of what others might think.”

41. “I’m just me. I don’t feel a reason to change.”

42. “I was good on my own, that’s the way it was.”

43. “I think women want freedom.”

44. “Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know?”

45. “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.”

46. “All you need to do is help one person, expecting nothing in return. To me, that is a humanitarian.”

47. “It’s nice to look back on your life and see things as lessons, and not regrets.”

48. “If you don’t live your life, who the fuck will?”

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

50. “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.” 

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

52. “I try my best to avoid the sharks of life, but I have had my share of experiences with them. But I do not swim with sharks—sharks swim with sharks.”

53. “Feel a little more and give a little less.”

54. “It’s only up from here, no downward spiral.”

55. “I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman—this business forces you to.”

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

57. “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.”

58. “I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment. I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end.”

59. “If I had a superpower, it would have to be being able to eat whatever you want and stay skinny.”

60. “I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar, and I get bored really, really quickly.” 

61. “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.” 

62. “It’s Twitter, not the altar! Calm down.”

63. “You’ve got your demons and she’s got her regrets.”

64. “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.”

65. “Sometimes, you just have to walk away.”

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

67. “I don’t leave things hanging. I will work all day in a meeting, leave that meeting at 1 or 2 a.m., and then come home with a tiny group of staff and work until 5, 7 a.m.”

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

69. “I take risks because I get bored. And I get bored very easily.”

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

71. “Eating ice cream late at night is so bad, but I love it!”

72. “It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!”

73. “I don’t have a sleep pattern. I have sleep pockets.”

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

75. “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.”

76. “I got to do things my own way, darling.”

77. “Want you to make me feel like I’m the only girl in the world.”

78. “Something in the way you move makes me feel like I can’t live without you.”

79. “When the sun shines, we’ll shine together.”

80. “Didn’t they tell you that I was a savage?”

81. “We opened up a cold case love, and it got the best of us.”

82. “You needed me to feel a little more, and give a little less.”

83. “I believed all of your dreams, adoration. You took my heart and my keys and my patience.”

84. “If you play, you play for keeps.”

85. “Love is testing me, but still, I’m losing it.”

86. “When I was 14 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.”

87. “I was so rude when I was a little girl.”

88. “Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my first video, I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.”

89. “I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off.”