# Ayra Starr

Ayra Starr (born 14 June 2002) is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and model.

## Quotes

* I know that If I had other features it would have been more elaborate. It would have been better if we had had different talents and points-of-views and all that. And I think the songs that have features are amazing and they complete the songs. But for the rest of the songs, I'm very happy that they are the way they are. They are telling my story and I want people to listen to it with my voice.
** Ayra Starr interview with Okayafrica.
* Sometimes I'm on a bus or at least when I used to still enter buses I will just have inspiration and start writing or singing.
** Ayra Starr interview with Okayafrica
* I always knew the name of my album was going to be 19 and dangerous, when I was younger and years before I even signed up for Marvin I mean it was going to be that.
** Ayra Starr interview with Okayafrica.
* wrote about what I would do and how I would do it. Because I've always known it was going to happen. I've worked hard to be where I am today and I've been saying since I was young that I was going to be popular and famous. I've been Ayra Starr since I was born. I was that annoying child who would tell everyone that I was going to be a superstar.
** Ayra Starr interview with Okayafrica.
* “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
* “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
* “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.”
* “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
* “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
* “There you shall find a piece of advice”
* “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
* “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
* “Get busy living or get busy dying.”
* “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
* “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
* “If you hate your enemies, enemies shine”
* “If you’re not a friend of me, enter the light”
* “Consistency is the ultimate hack to success in life”
* “Giving is the easiest way to building lasting wealth”
* “Never back down, keep getting back up”
* “If it is true, it will always endure”
* “Your life is for many, not yours alone”
* “Protect my energy from your bad aura”
* “Standing where no man can put asunder”
* “I wait and take on projects that I think can work”
* “You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don’t know what’s going to be great.
* “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble; it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”
* “Live for each second without hesitation.”
* “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
* “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
* “Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.”
* People are going to want to try things and do their own versions of things. The key is that when we stick together as Afrobeats artists and continue with our sound; it can never be diluted. Nobody is ever going to be able to do it like us.
Ayra Starr Wants You to Expect Greatness from Her New Album. 28 May 2024, Elle.

## External link

* Ayra Starr official website