The Best India Arie quotes

I love musicals and I love Broadway. — Ariana Grande

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super–sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too! — Ariana Grande

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio. — Ariana Grande

I’d love to fly. I think that’d be cool. — Ariana Grande

What I love about Christmas music is it stays around every year and comes back. — India Arie

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love. — India.Arie

I’m not the average girl from your video and I ain’t built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie

You deal with what comes to you. If it’s something you don’t like, you deal with it the best you can. If it’s something that you love, you rise to the occasion. — India Arie

I just love to shop. If I could, I would shop every single day in every single store and spend all of my money which, you know, I do anyway. — Ariana Grande

The songs that I’ve written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I’m gonna sing them because I know that it’s real. — India.Arie

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater. — Ariana Grande

I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect’s the spirit world and thinks with his heart — India.Arie

I love making my Instagram look cohesive–look like a Tumblr page almost. When they all make sense colorwise, or when you add those white borders to them, it makes them look cleaner. Clean and precise. — Ariana Grande

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it. — Ariana Grande

Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self–esteem and distorted body image. I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully. — Ariana Grande

Either you’re a hater or a lover. — India.Arie

Your real job in this world is to be you. — India.Arie

I can’t believe how some of the most unfortunate people in the world can be the happiest.It’s just so enlightening to me. — Ariana Grande

I’m just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in. — India.Arie

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it. — Ariana Grande

I had been on what seemed to be a hiatus to the outside world, but I was actually working very hard on my health, my emotional health, and my business. — India Arie

The only thing constant in the world is change, that’s why today I take life as it comes. — India.Arie

I always pray when I write songs that my spirit guides, or whoever is with me, inspiring me, would let me speak the truth. — India Arie

God is infinitely creative, and everyone’s different, and everyone has a different path, a different lesson, a different song, a different face, a different voice. — India.Arie

One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs. — India Arie

I like Brandy a lot. She’s a vocal prodigy. — India Arie

I know that I pray a lot, and I take time for myself. — India Arie

Things that I’m afraid to do are always about being afraid of being exposed. Every time, that’s what it’s always about. — India.Arie

I love my fans so much! I know I say it all the time, but I really appreciate all the things they have done for me. — Ariana Grande

Any time someone is passionate about a cause, it’s because they want to heal something inside of themselves. — India.Arie

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it’s a little bit at a time, and eventually it’s barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it. — India.Arie

I heard a voice that told me I’m essential. How all my fears are limiting my potential. Said it’s time to step into the light and use every bit of power i have inside. — India.Arie

Because of what I’ve chosen to do for my work in the world, almost every time that there’s something that I’m afraid to do that I need to do, I have to do it in front of other people. It makes me feel exposed. — India.Arie

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do. — India.Arie

I’m really judgmental, especially about things that I feel make my life harder. — India Arie

I feel like I’m always gonna sing and write songs because it’s me. — India Arie

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. I have the best family and fans in the world! — Ariana Grande

In hindsight, I feel like I made the right decision to choose production that would get played on black radio. — India Arie

The thing that makes me feel most alive is knowing that there’s something that I have to do that I’m afraid of. — India Arie

What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He’s one of the best examples of how music can heal. — India Arie

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room–that’s what museums are–a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that’s a beautiful thing. — India.Arie

I write about my experiences, so a lot of times, I do write about people. — India Arie

I’ve dreamed about doing music since I was three or four years old. — Ariana Grande

I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. — Ariana Grande

Moonlight is very honest and very special to me. I feel like this is the most personal music I’ve made, by far. I’m very proud of it and I’m very excited. It’s scary…it’s vulnerable and kind of terrifying. — Ariana Grande

Over the years, I was doing what I loved to do, which is my music. But it was always a bit distorted, because I was doing the music in the way other people around me were telling me it should be done. — India.Arie

In my opinion, you just have to make the music. Make the music and work as hard as you can to get it out there. — India Arie

I always loved music, but I didn’t know if I could be the kind of artist that makes a difference. — India Arie

I was born in love with music. My mother is a singer. Many of my aunts and uncles on my mother’s side are musical. My grandparents sang and played blues piano. It’s literally in my blood. — India Arie

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special. — Ariana Grande

I don’t regret any of the decisions I’ve made in my life. Because with every choice I’ve made, I’ve learned something new. — Ariana Grande

Nina Simone sacrificed so much to be as bold as she was about being black and about being female in an era where that could have cost her life. — India Arie

Pink Champagne is about having fun and letting go, and living your life to the fullest! — Ariana Grande

I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That’s why I write about the things I write about. — India.Arie

My life is so tumultuous. I dive into everything. I’m feeling all up and down and sleepy and moody and hormonal–it just gets crazy. Just to keep myself balanced, I do things like yoga and meditation. — India.Arie

The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life. — Ariana Grande

I’ve spent my entire life trying to figure out why I was different than everybody else. Why is my voice so deep? Why am I so muscular? — India Arie

Life is beautiful. Be thankful for everything. Destroy your ego. Free hugs. Sing your hearts out in the street. Rock ‘n roll. — Ariana Grande

When it comes down to the song writing, I’m just very slow–very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I’m doing emotional work on myself. — India Arie

Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we’ve taken. — India.Arie

I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within. — India.Arie

I’m not just making rhymes and making melodies. I’m expressing my true life force, energy. — India Arie

I like Aurora, Sleeping Beauty, because shes just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boys to come kiss her. Sounds like a good life–lots of naps and cute boys fighting dragons to come kiss you. — Ariana Grande

Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can’t change where you’ve been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose. — India.Arie