Rihanna quotes:

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Alcohol is the devil and I need Chinese food.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

While in America beautiful is skinny, in Barbados it's thick - girls with huge butts and nice curves.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

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

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

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.

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

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I would have never dreamed that my career would be this successful. I grew up in an average home in Barbados, and we didn't live in the best neighborhood. But I was never aware that we were poor; my mom never made us feel that way. She loved me unconditionally. She made us feel anything was possible and instilled in me such confidence.

Anything that feels familiar and comfortable [is home]. It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados. It's warm, it's beautiful, it's the beach, it's my family, it's the food, it's the music. Everything feels familiar, feels right and feels safe. So, Barbados is home for me.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

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

You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

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

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

We found love in a hopeless place.

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.

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

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie.

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.

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 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.

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.

I have an ugly day every month; pimples on my face, I'm fat and in a bad mood. It's more like an ugly week!

Spend time with people who know how to use their days well. Just as iron sharpens iron, positive people will inspire you to be positive.

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

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

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.

My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

Bitch better have my money! Y'all should know me well enough.

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

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.

You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.

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 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.

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

Single life is so overrated.

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

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!'

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 am happy and I'm single.

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

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.

Any man that tells me what to do is sexy!

As a young female I think it's important that young people know there's nothing wrong with having fun, nobody is telling us to be square or be boring, but we have to be safe.

Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past!

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

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

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

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

Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.

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.

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

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

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 always listen to music no matter what I'm doing. Music is definitely always something that drives the mood and creating and helps you lock that in and escape to a whole other world.

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

I can compensate for all my weaknesses with my fashion.

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.

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.

I don't have anything to hide.

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.

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

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 have several videos on my phone that I've never released. Having dance parties in our car, don't be jealous!

I just love a challenge, whether it's a relationship, my career, clothing.

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

I like Toronto; the people are really chill.

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

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

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

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.

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

I want to be the black Madonna.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm in a positive space, but I do have my days. Everybody has their days.

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

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

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.

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

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

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

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

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

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

Love isn't complicated, people are,

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

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.

Music is what I love to do, so you'll never have to worry about me not doing that.

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

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.

Never a failure,always a lesson