Top 50 Bebe Rexha Quotes

I write all of my songs from scratch, so the one thing I love about EDM is the way a song transforms into a piece of art, and how the different sounds can change the feel of the record.

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.

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.

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

I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.

We’re fighting to be ourselves in a world that’s trying to make us like everyone else.

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.

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

It might crush a lot of people, but I’ve never been in the room with an artist that I’ve written a song for.

Since I’m on a tour bus, sometimes it’s really hard for me to wash my face, so I always make sure I have those Neutrogena Make-up Remover Cleansing Towelettes. No matter what and no matter how long the days are, I always have to wash with those before bed and when I wake up.

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 that the music industry is such an interesting place, and there are so many situations that people don’t know about.

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.

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

I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.

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 think what ‘The Monster‘ means to me is I find it really hard – like a lot of other people in the world – to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, ‘It’s OK that you’re not perfect.’ I’m gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I’m a little crazy.

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

I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.

I’m proud of my work and how far I’ve come, and I’m proud of the way that I did it.

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

‘Straight Outta Compton’ was such a great movie, and obviously, I’m in the music business, so getting to see that piece of history was amazing, and it was an incredible movie.

I have never spoken to Eminem. I’ve never even spoken to him once.

I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I’m a little bit darker than others.

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.

I bought these pink sticker things… and I would write things on them, and I wrote, ‘I will write an international smash,’ and shortly after, it was when we did ‘Monster,’ and it was an international smash.

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.

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

You get to the point where you’re like, ‘I’m just doing me, and if people don’t like it, then it is what it is.’

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

It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of ‘The Little Mermaid,’ and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing – I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

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 turned sadness into an anthem for not letting anything or anyone slow you down.

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

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

I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

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

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.

My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny‘s Child.

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

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.

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

I’m very tomboy, and I’m inspired by hip hop artists.

I’m very obsessed with not being perfect.

I had a moment where I was like, ‘I’m so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.’

Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.

It’s tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it’s another artist.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.