If at first you don’t succeed. You can dust it off and try again. Dust yourself off and try again.
AALIYAHIf at first you don’t succeed. You can dust it off and try again. Dust yourself off and try again.
AALIYAHI’m a total performer.
AALIYAHI think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
AALIYAHSensual is being in tune with your sensual self.
AALIYAHWhatever will be, will be.
AALIYAHI’m a survivor and I can handle anything. I’m very confident about that.
AALIYAHIt’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.
AALIYAHIt was always part of the plan to move into acting.
AALIYAHI’ve been singing all my life. I’ve always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.
AALIYAHThere are times I can’t even figure myself out.
AALIYAHYou know we’re in a business where things are just unpredictable. You don’t know what’s going to happen…we were lucky Blessed, I think is a better way to put it.
AALIYAHThere is always a bit of pressure to do a good album – to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can’t even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.
AALIYAHPeople are gonna look up to me because I’m young, black, and female.
AALIYAHI don’t want to abandon one work for the other, and I don’t think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
AALIYAHAll I can do is leave it in God’s hands and hope that my fans feel where I’m coming from.
AALIYAHMy parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’
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