I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.

It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

I still got the nasty in me.

I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

I'm not just another bimbo.

I have fun being sexy and tough at the same time.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

Red lips and fragrance always top off an outfit for me.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

I'm not a 9-to-5 woman who has the same kind of lifestyle for years on end. I couldn't do it.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.