Iggy Azalea Quotes

No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

First things first, I'm da realest.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

I naturally want to be provocative.

My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s white and won it many times - and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.

Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.

'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.

Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change - that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.

People think I'm more wild than I am... I like going to theme parks, play sports or just hanging out with my friends.

I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

Not every artist is a role model.