Top 35 Bree Runway Quotes

I always prioritize dark-skinned women when I’m casting my music videos. I just believe that we deserve to be front and center. I never like to make the girls I choose look like backup.

It’s natural for me to step into the studio and come out with a country, rock, or trap song. I’d feel pressured if I was focused on making songs that gave me high streams or something, but I don’t think about those kinds of things.

I’m from Ghana and I grew up in Hackney around a lot of aunties which exposed me to beauty and skin stuff.

I was exposed to Grace Jones and highlife music at a young age. I would sing along and as I grew up, music was the only thing that felt like a safe haven for me.

Even on social media, I’ll post something creative or different and someone from the UK will comment on something insignificant like my outfit. It’s such a problem over here, people can be very rude and judgemental.

I was always passionate about music since I was super young.

I feel like what you tell yourself after the words ‘I am…’ is so important. I’m very careful with the words I use about myself.

When I’m shooting a music video, when we’re midway through the day, I need everyone to be quiet while we’re getting ready for the next scenes. That’s really important for me to be able to keep my head in the game.

I can make music out of anything. Even that phone ringing, I could sample that. I grew up listening to Missy, Britney, Kelis, Lil Kim, Grace Jones, all the eccentric, out-there women. And men like Freddie Mercury, David Bowie. Those are my peopledem.

I just don’t care about what anyone thinks of me.

I was so shy to be seen online that I’d always cover my face with my phone. I wanted you to see me but I didn’t really want to be seen.

Feel the fear, and do it anyway. That’s the mentality. Even if you’re scared, just do it.

Sometimes I really believe in something and I’ll always take it up to God… cuz I always meet God halfway.

I definitely want to put together an amazing debut album with some really dreamy collaborations.

In the UK, everyone’s quite conservative. No-one wants to look like a fan.

Certain people don’t want you to see your light when you’re a bit shaky in it yourself.

I think it’s so fun that my art isn’t centered in one sound or rooted in one lane or whatever. It’s just the Bree lane.

When I was younger, I used to buy foundations that were a shade lighter. Looking back at pictures I looked really stupid and now I don’t like it when someone who is doing my make-up uses too much light stuff to contour my face.

I never want the girls I work with to feel like back-up. The world doesn’t make us feel like stars all the time, so in my world, you’re gonna look like a star and feel incredible.

You got to do the natural and God will do the super, you know, and when it comes together and it’s always beautiful. You just have to have faith and back it with hard work and happen.

I would love to act in movies because I’m such a great actress.

In school I was interested in music, but I never saw myself being a musician at that point. Music technology was the only subject I cared about: it taught me the basics of music production and I started making beats and freestyling with my friends.

I think I’m naturally very much a comedian.

I’m just inspired by how fast-paced my life is. Being around people that I love who are cool and inspiring, that kind of feeds me, but being in lockdown and in the same four walls, you kind of have to bring yourself your own vibes.

I just feel like you’ve got to leave the viewer wanting more, and that’s what those kinds of videos from the early 2000s made me want.

I’m so grateful to be Ghanaian, with this deep, deep skin that is just glowy. Light bounces off my cheekbones and my shoulders, no matter the season.

My dad was a drummer and would always have music on around the house.

With my existence and with my music I’m saying, even though we’re not supposed to, here I am doing it and doing it well. I want people to feel like when they listen to me, they can forget all the rules.

Throughout my journey, I just want to continue to showcase the different sides of me. Everything I do is easy if I have that logic.

I don’t like when people say I’m the next this person or whatever. I feel like I’m very much my own person.

Bullying about my skin tone probably started at nine years old and it was actually by the lighter-skinned black girls at school.

Sometimes people are scared of standing out too much. I don’t feel like that, though.

Without sounding cocky, Freddie Mercury does remind me of me.

When I wanted a job at Christian Louboutin, I literally printed the entrance of the store I wanted to work at on my wall and looked at it in the morning before I got up and went to work at Children’s Shoes.

I try to study a genre I don’t really listen to on a day-to-day-basis because there is honestly inspiration everywhere: it’s best to go digging in places you don’t normally go.