Top 44 Bebe Rexha Quotes

I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.

I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

It’s a very hard industry, and it’s very cold. It’s loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don’t have anything going on, there’s really not much support.

When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.

I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That’s how I always thought it was.

The world can be very small. That’s why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.

I don’t really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn’t really have my first kiss until really, really late.

There’s nothing mathematical to my writing. It’s a feeling.

I rolled up my sleeves and said, ‘I want to make a mark on this world.’

For mascara, I’ll just use whatever I have in my bag. I’ll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.

I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.

My ideal night would probably be a dope outfit, people that I love around me. Go to get some dinner, have some amazing food. Maybe sushi or Italian: I love both.

Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.

One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill.’

When I first was a part of ‘The Monster,’ I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough – until Eminem liked it.

I’ve been in the room or watched artists walk in who don’t write, and you can’t figure out what they really want.

I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they’re meant to be is where they’ll be.

We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

I want people to be happy.

I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.

I’ve had situations where producers would be like, ‘Could you meet me? Take the train; don’t tell your parents.’

Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that’s something I really admire about her.

You need to know when to surrender the album.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I’m fighting towards the light.

Life is hard. It is. And it’s like, I don’t want anybody feeling any pain.

It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.

Nothing really scares me anymore.

I think, especially in pop culture, we’re brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

I don’t judge people on their personal lives.

I was the girl that didn’t go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.

I have put absolutely everything into my album. I feel like it’s been such a long journey to get here. It is like giving birth to my first child, and I want to make sure I did everything right.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

I’d love to work with Kanye West. He’s gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.

I just want us to all have a good time and to party and enjoy this life, because it’s too short. It’s too short.

I just respect Kanye as an artist.

Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

If you’re in a dark place, you’re there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

The most important thing to me is that it’s all really raw.

I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn’t even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don’t blame her, though.

We don’t walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It’s like, I walk around wearing black.

I just don’t let music genres define me.