Quotes

I never think too hard about a look. When you consider an outfit too much, that's when it goes wrong.

I walked into this industry blond with red lips, and I will leave this industry blond with red lips. Mark my words.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

Women love an honest man.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.

I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent.

Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd's not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

I've always been into looking different.

Madonna, Michael Jackson, Tina Turner, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe - they were myths of greatness.

I'm very private.

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

The public's not stupid.

I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting. That is not what it is.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.

I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

Roc Nation is such an incredible, unique team, especially in the music industry. Everyone genuinely loves and cares about each other.

I don't feel like myself without the red lip. I feel like I'm taking a risk or something without it.

I admire Rihanna.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

I don't really have that many judgements on things, or crazy statements that I feel like I have to put across.

It's nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

I love the Scottish accent; it is very sexy.

Jessie J is a great, great girl. I'm a friend and have always been a fan of hers. I'm happy to see her doing her thing.

I'm not going to have a baby until I'm around 30-something.

I love masculine cuts with suits and chunky jewellery. My hair is so glam, it balances it out, and it's comfy!

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

'Roc The Life' is a song I wrote with The Dream, who made 'Umbrella,' 'Single Ladies' and loads more.

I'm scared of a lot of things.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

I'm very spontaneous. I go with my gut.

One day I will settle down, when I have achieved everything I wanted.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.