You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in..

When you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu, my friend Lee Saunders has said, and he is correct..

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved..

The only thing that limits you right now is you..

I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once..

Keep it weird. They'll get it later..

Experience by itself is not science..

The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't..

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens..

I'm an unpure purist, something like that..

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again..

The longer you live, the better you get..

I don't want to exhibit something to someone anymore. I want to do the reverse: I want to exhibit someone to something..

I'm a free agent. I want the major-label budget for my next album, but I'm too big for the label to pay me. I don't want to be controlled, to be wate….

No one can be Rihanna, except for Rihanna.

Just when I thought you couldn't get any dumber, you go and do something like this... and totally redeem yourself!.

You can't expect anything to be handed to you. And I learned that..

I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it..

I woke up. I was like, "Look, you can do anything you want - and you want a lot of things, so you should get to work.".

Do not serve time, let time serve you..

I'm closest to the music when I'm onstage with the band, playing..