Never a failure,always a lesson

People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good

I was so rude when I was a little girl.

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

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

I think love is one of the purest things you can sing about. One of the best things you can sing about.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Single life is so overrated.

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.

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.

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

I threw my hands in the air and said show me something. He said, "if you dare come a little closer".

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'

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

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

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

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

I have two main hair people I work with. They're always with me. I'm like, 'I'm bored! I wanna change my hair!' That's the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

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

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.

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

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.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

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.

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.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We've been doing great in the streaming market, so it's not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They're treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

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

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 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.

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

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.