Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

I just want to be myself.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

If you deny people their own voice, you’ll have no idea of who they were.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn’t say in real life.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Music helps me tell my story. That’s where I can really be heard. But there’s so much focus on the things that aren’t music.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

No, I can’t do rap music!

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

You’re not going to say anything about me that I’m not going to say about myself. There’s so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I’m going to say it before they can. It’s the best policy for me.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Robyn is who I am. Rihanna – that’s an idea of who I am.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

I have the space and liberty to create.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.