Bibi Bourelly

“Working with Rihanna has changed my life.”

“I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.”

“There's so much judgment geared toward young girls. People just expect so much from girls. Even physically and aesthetically, people expect us to always look right, to have a certain etiquette - to talk a certain way and act a certain way - and to know certain things. It's all different expectations, but there are always expectations.”

“Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.”

“My dad is Jean-Paul Bourelly, a really prestige guitar player in Europe, and he toured with Miles Davis. I was always surrounded by the most prestige kind of musicians from Senegal, Trinidad, Poland, Nigeria, and all around the world.”

“School, for me, was a really, genuinely hard thing. It was hard because l am an artist. You can't send an artist to a place where we learn at a mad slow pace sitting in a class.”

“I always do what makes me happy - it doesn't make sense to live life unhappily.”

“I believe that I exist for the people. I'm just here to try to make a difference, and hopefully, the people listen and trust me enough to contribute.”

“My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.”

“The music industry is hard work, especially for women. A lot of people pit us against each other, comparing two body types or two women that are completely different. It's a lot of pressure.”

“I can still feel unsure in myself, and l'm still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong.”

“I don't want to, in the last three minutes of my life, know that I lived it for somebody else.”

“True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.”

“A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.”

“What people think of you doesn't matter, because I believe anything's possible. No one's going to convince me I'm not capable of living up to my full potential, because I've obsessed over that idea. The universe wants me to be great for me.”

“I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn't work out, because I feel like I'm so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.”

“I'm out here living my dream. People are listening to my music.”

“I want music to really unite people, more than the way a pop single unites people. I want to unite people through their pain and really change mentalities, change minds, and change perspectives.”

“Opportunities don't always come dressed in neon colors.”

“Think about how many dreams die with people - if you don't believe in yourself, whatever you're doing is for no reason.”