Aaliyah Quotes

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.

I feel like I'm really just getting started. I don't know what's going to happen in the next five or ten years.

I was actually just blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful veterans and people that I had great chemistry with and that were just open to me.

I’ve always been mysterious. My mother and father always used to ask me, "What are you thinking, what’s going on?" There are times when I don’t understand myself, you know what I mean?

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

Playing off of people that great was great for me.

I knew at a very young age this was what I wanted to do. I started singing at six so I knew by the time I was eight.

Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.

It was a painful time for me and my family. That's why I'm proud to say I'm a strong person. I'm a survivor and I can handle anything. I'm very confident about that. I come from a very strong family and they are always there to protect me. If I need any help I'll just call on my mummy or daddy or my brother to whom I'm very close.

When people ask me, I tell them, "Hey don't believe all that mess. We're close and people took it the wrong way."

Always be true to yourself.

There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.

I love baths. Absolutely love baths. I like to just draw a nice warm bath with a lot of bubbles, get a few sweets, maybe put them by the bath, put on really good music and chill.

I have black-out shades in my apartment, I push a button, it’s totally dark. I think I’m a bit of a vampire in real life, and there are times when I just want to be myself. I wanna be alone.

There's a dark side to me that comes out in everything I do.