- 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.
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