Bibi Bourelly

I think that I can't help but put my personal pain in my music because there's a lot of it. That's my therapy.

Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.

My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.

I fell in love with singing, and through singing, I learned how to write songs. Anything you're consistent with and that you do all the time, you're gonna reap benefits off it at one point. You're not gonna get worse!

As far as songwriting, I'm not sure if they wrote all of their own stuff, but I love the Dixie Chicks.

Music is a lot more powerful than anyone gives it credit for. I can sing something right now and make you feel something that you would not feel if I said it. If somebody can sing and connect to people just through voice, just through sonics, capturing an emotion, that's a direct string to somebody's soul.

I love making music. I love that it's unstructured, that I get to go perform and play in front of people, to meet new people. I love to do the thing I'm best at every day.

I love creating things that come from my gut and my soul.

There's nothing wrong with writing for other artists, but that's just not what my purpose is.

Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'

Working with Rihanna has changed my life.

I've seen people pass away. I've seen how fragile life is.