Rihanna Quotes - Page 6

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

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

There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and get tested to know our status, and spread the word.

I want to be the black Madonna.

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

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!

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.

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

I like Toronto; the people are really chill.

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 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

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

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

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

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.

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

My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup.

I would say my relationship with my father has had a bigger impact on me than I knew. Even with the things that I love, the things that I am attracted to. A lot of it stems from the things that I've seen in my life as a child.

People forget that after we get to our hotel rooms at night, we take a shower, we watch TV, eat room service and do normal things. Behind our image, we are still human beings.

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 status to get them a bone marrow transplant, I want to help.

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

When you're shopping, too, you feel like you're designing as you're shopping. You're like, 'I love this, but I wish it was shorter or I wish it was purple. I wish it was a different fabric,' you know. It starts there, but then when you have to start from scratch, it really comes with an idea first, and then... you want to tweak and then you come up with something else and you want to add to it or change. It's fun. It's like an ocean - you can do whatever.

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.

So I guess I'm a fool, I'm a fool in love. But I'm willing to stay here, and bask in the glory of his heart.