You need to know when to surrender the album.
— Bebe Rexha
I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
I'm not one to be like, 'What is everybody doing? Let me do that!' I just do what I want.
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.
I remember starting out and covering songs.
My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
I view myself as a male artist.
I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
I just respect Kanye as an artist.
One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'
I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.
I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like it, then it is what it is.'
I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.
I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
I want to be Kanye and do what he does musically. I'm very fearless.
I have a lot of respect for Eminem and Rihanna. They are both very real in their music.
We don't walk around wearing candy stuff all day or colorful stuff. It's like, I walk around wearing black.
Music changes so fast, and we're in a singles market.
I don't judge people on their personal lives.
I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
