Rihanna Quotes

I'm a big emotional mess. I try to talk about things that people don't like to talk about, especially in music. Hopefully it reaches someone and lets them access their vulnerability. That's what I want it to accomplish.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

I want people to feel the times where they don't feel good. You should dive into those emotions, because that's what I do with my music.

Pain's always been the root of my music. I just write what I feel.

'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I didn't never have to go to a therapist. I just always put it in a song and you heard me.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

When you write music that expresses doubt or concern, or talks about some of the darker things that a developing human goes through, people will come out of the woodwork to listen to someone else say it out loud.

For a long time, I couldn't tell somebody how I felt or I couldn't talk about my problems because I felt like I was complaining. Writing would help me or it would be like, I can't tell you how I feel, but I can play you a song.

I just write about how I'm feeling at the time. If I feel like being cheeky and a bit straight up and a bit aggressive, you'll hear that in my music. If I feel like being very vulnerable and opening up about something personal, you'll hear that, too.

I'm just a perpetually confused and terrified person that is trying to be less so all the time, and music is the byproduct of that.

Some days, I'll be very down and out, but you won't be able to tell, really, because I don't express that side of myself on social media. That's the side of myself that I express through music.

Mostly everything I've ever sung comes from a personal place.

I've used songwriting as a tool, I've used it as a way of being able to talk about how I feel.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.