Top 55 Mya Quotes

No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.

I love Broadway. I love live performing. It’s really spiritual when you can get to interact with people, and they actually affect how your show goes.

To take a whole load for a whole album on yourself is very challenging and kind of hard to execute when you don’t have a reputation as a producer. If you do it for fun, you get a good outcome.

I was raised on pork… steak, chicken, everything… And everyone in my family pretty much of the older generation has diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer.

I’ve been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.

I’m very patient with life.

This thing we call love has always been tricky, and as beautiful as it can be, we can potentially lose ourselves in it.

When your back is against the wall, and you feel like you’re losing faith and hope because so many things are coming at you at once, hold on.

I do quite well for myself, but I live a simple life.

I’m always connecting with what society would label the outcasts and the weirdos and the lost souls.

The people that I associate with, the circle that I keep, is real simple, and sometimes we think or we’re trained to believe that you always have to have more, more, more to make ourselves feel happy or beautiful, but it’s the other way around for me. Simplicity is sexy.

If you have any kind of sex appeal, people are quick to accuse, abuse, lie, assume, and make up rumors. And that’s not just in entertainment – that’s in life. Period.

Being sexy, to me, is possessing the full package: the brains, the drive, inner confidence, spiritual foundation, a positive attitude, proceeding through obstacles, making a positive contribution to the world, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

I’ve always wanted to be a live singer and have dance be the complement.

You have to take a leap of faith before exposing yourself completely in terms of feelings and desires – especially if you’re a woman.

I didn’t really get sidetracked into being a singer. It was just something I started to do for fun in school, like singing the national anthem.

I would definitely tell my younger self not to be in a rush, on anyone else‘s timeline, and make sure that, along the way, that you take care of you first so that you can reach your destination.

What always draws me back to the Caribbean vibes are the upbeat vibrations of welcoming melodies and positive energy exchange through the rhythms that make you feel like dancing with someone.

People have linked me to a lot of people. But people also project what they want to see for you.

I have a lot of scripts that come my way, and some of them take a bit longer to read than others. There are a lot of things that I have to pass on because I’m just not into it, and sometimes the story is slightly forced.

Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn’t mean that you’re incapable or less than a man.

Having my own label has been nothing short of amazing!

I don’t strive for perfection, because it doesn’t exist.

I know I’m different. Even when I think about an acting career, there are so many limited roles to begin with. I have the ability to be Spanish, Indian, Italian, black, Persian. What roles do I see that compliment that?

I realized that I really couldn’t worry about what people think of me.

I’m not wearing leather shoes, and I have not worn furs since a long time ago. I have to be very conscious when I’m making decisions and saying I’m vegan because I have to be about it all the way.

We had a bond creatively that came out of ‘Lady Marmalade.’ It was our link. And people don’t know this, but P!nk and I actually met when we were both 16 years old in Philadelphia. I was recording my first album, and we were working with the same producers, so I originally knew her as Alecia.

Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.

I think the ‘R&B singer’ title came from me entering the business at a time when R&B chick singers were the trend. I was fine with that, but I have a lot more to offer.

The definition of success, for me, was to have my family involved in everything that I did. But that got stripped away from me due to a very ugly divorce between my parents, who are also simultaneously my managers.

I went vegan because it was a willpower challenge. I’ve been vegetarian, I’ve been pescetarian, and vegan was the next thing.

Music makes me love life, and without it, I don’t know if I’d be happy.

My mother is a two-time cancer survivor.

I’ve gone through relationships, gone through the normal things that a normal person would go through.

‘Damage‘ is about taking risks, stepping into new territory regardless of the outcome.

I love rice and pasta.

My family is filled with amazingly talented painters, musicians, vocalists.

It was really nice working with Richard Gere, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Renee Zellweger.

I’m very reserved when I get off stage.

It took time for me to step away and become an independent thinker so that wherever I am in the world, I understand who I am and that nothing’s impossible.

I’m a real model because I’m imperfect.

Understand that you are going to have to address several things navigating through the world as it pertains to men who have been conditioned to think that they are superior, which I don’t believe, in the natural world, that is the case.

When I moved back home, I took the initiative to involve my entire family in my career because I didn’t find that anyone else was as passionate and thorough.

When I go to the spa, I’m a girly girl. I’m pampering myself. But on a regular basis, I’m a very tough tomboy – I have to remind myself that I’m still a woman!

Hope is everything. Once you’ve lost that, you don’t really have much.

I’m always performing. I’m always hustling.

I’m taking my time with the acting and learning as I go.

I’m not Britney Spears, so I still have a life. I can go certain places without getting hounded by little 5-year-olds. So I’m very sane as a person.

Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending.

I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.

Tomorrow‘s not promised. You may love someone; you may have a grudge because of something that they did to you, and it was unfair, but life’s not fair. Life is very short, so clean up your grudges. Let’s not hold them.

High expectations are really intimidating.

Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me.

There’s a balance of feminine and masculine energy. Unfortunately, it’s an imbalanced world because of the people that are in charge, and that’s egotistical men.

My problems are so miniscule compared to what’s going on in the world. In that sense, I feel liberated.