Mya Quotes

When it comes to the ’90s, there’s nothing I want to repeat.

If I step out in public, I wear sweatpants and a cap.

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

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

Positive energy and attitude is sexy to me.

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!

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

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.

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

Life is too short to hold on to the past and grudges.

I love rice and pasta.

I think actors, athletes, and anyone who’s a public speaker is very amazing or fascinating to me.

My family thinks I’m crazy and weird.

I’ve really fired a lot of managers that had that mindset or publicists that had that mindset of, ‘Oh, you need to go on a date with this person because it’s going to help album sales.’ No thank you. That’s not my flow.

I’m very patient with life.

I definitely learned that when I want something done, I’m very tunnel-visioned out. I don’t come out of the house. I beat myself up. I don’t eat. I don’t sleep until it’s done, especially if I have a deadline in mind.

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.

When you have a live performance, you’re going to be pitchy here and there, unless you have perfect pitch.

I’m the oldest in my family, and I grew up with brothers, so we would be on the front lawn every day playing football, whether it’s tackle or tag.

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

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

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.

I grew up with brothers in real life.

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

I don’t see females in the industry collaborating as much as guys d,o so I really would love to entertain more of that.

I wouldn’t be a great candidate for dramatic fighting TV; I’m not a cat-fighting kinda person.

I’m O.K. having a comfortable life. I don’t have to live in a mansion and drive Aston Martins or Ferraris.

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.

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.

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.

I gravitate toward people with a big, sane, sound mind and big heart with a soft spot for elders, children, and animals.

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’m very bold and say what I feel. That doesn’t mean I ruffle feathers. It means I’m being honest.

I don’t pay attention to definitions or titles or try to fit within them.

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

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.

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

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.

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’m a real model because I’m imperfect.

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

Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it – the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That’s the rush – when you see things come to life.

I didn’t know what I was getting into when I went vegan, but so many things changed. I shed 30 pounds. I felt better. I was doing better mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I was healing myself from the inside out.

I was very protected by my family. But at the same time, I was free to explore womanhood. I was taught that it’s okay to be sexy and smart and beautiful.

The fact that music is my first love and that after almost two decades, the love has grown every year… I’m truly thankful for that and want to always show my appreciation to those who keep me motivated and inspired.

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

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.

There was a time in my life when I wasn’t popular and accepted by kids in school. I was made fun of with braces and kinky hair and being from a multicultural family, et cetera.

Broadway really inspired me to want to act.

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.

Having my own label has been nothing short of amazing!

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.

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.