People gonna talk whether you doing bad or good
Never a failure,always a lesson
I was so rude when I was a little girl.
Eff love. Come out of the situation and look at it third person.
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 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.
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.
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.
Single life is so overrated.
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.
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.
Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.
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 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.
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.
