“throughout my whole career, label executives would just say, ‘a nice girl doesn’t force their opinions on people; a nice girl smiles and waves and says thank you.’ i became the person everyone wanted me to be.”
“i wanna love glitter and also stand up for the double standards that exist in our society. i wanna wear pink, and tell you how i feel about politics. i don’t think those things have to cancel each other out.”
“sorry, was i loud?’ in my own house. that I bought. with the songs that i wrote. about my own life.”
“i have a really slappable face.”
“nobody physically saw me for a year. and that’s what i thought they wanted. i had to deconstruct an entire belief system, toss it out and reject it.”
“if i get bad press for saying don’t put a homophobic racist in office, then i get bad press”
“donald trump likes my music 25% less.”
“oh, shit. this is a rihanna shirt.”
“i want to still have a sharp pen and a thin skin and an open heart.”
“i need to be on the right side of history.”
“it feels fucking awesome.”
“when you are living from the approval of strangers, one bad thing can cause everything to crumble.”
“when people fall out of love with you, there’s nothing you can do to make them change their mind.”
“there is no such thing as a slut, there is no such thing as a bitch, there is no such thing as being bossy. there is just a boss.”
“next time there is an opportunity to change anything, you had better know what you stand for and what you wanna say.”
end of thread! there’s so many more quotes that mean so much <3