Christina Aguilera quotes:

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  • Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

  • So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

  • It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.

  • I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

  • It's definitely a dream come true to be recognized and to be able to sign autographs. But, it's also a lot of hard work and can be draining. If you don't know already, you will quickly learn who your real friends are.

  • I went through my first big breakup, with a boyfriend who I had been with for more than two years. He had been one of my dancers, and it was my first love and his.

  • Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

  • Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

  • 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'm a smart girl. There are decisions that I make for reasons, and the most important thing is that my son is happy and he always will be. He's surrounded by love.

  • The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

  • 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.

  • Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

  • I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

  • I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

  • I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

  • It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.

  • I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

  • I really love traveling to Japan.

  • I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

  • It can be hard in this business, especially when you're very young, to figure out who you can and can't trust.

  • It's been a joy to be a part of other people's journey, to be able to inspire and be a part of new singers coming up in this business.

  • I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

  • I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

  • My future daughter is not going to go through what I did.

  • I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

  • Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.

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

  • My first love was singing and I had no time for boys.

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

  • Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

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

  • 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 remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

  • When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

  • I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.

  • When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

  • I try to stay focused on my creativity.

  • There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

  • Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

  • A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.

  • I feel things deeply.

  • Target is one of the best at really listening to the artist and understanding what they are about.

  • My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

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

  • It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

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

  • I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

  • I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

  • I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

  • I love color - I'm not a beige kind of girl.

  • I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

  • I love my body.

  • I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

  • I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.

  • When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

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

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

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

  • Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

  • I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

  • Etta James is my all-time favorite singer. I've said it in every interview, in every story, in every on- and off-camera question. That music was always such a huge escape for me, even from a young age.

  • The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

  • Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

  • Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

  • I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

  • I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

  • Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.

  • 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.

  • You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.

  • I don't think I could ever really be with a woman because that's a lot of... Yeah, there's a lot of estrogen and I'm a lot to deal with when it's that time of the month, so I can't imagine it times two.

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

  • I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

  • I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

  • I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

  • The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

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

  • When I'm lost in the rain, In your eyes I know I'll find the light to light my way And when I'm scared, losing ground When my world is going crazy You can turn it all around and when I'm down you're there Pushing me to the top You're always there, giving me all you've got

  • For a shield from the storm, for a friend, for a love to keep me safe and warm...I turn to you. For the strength to be strong, for the will to carry on...for everything you do, for everything thats true, I turn to you.

  • To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

  • I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.

  • You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.

  • During that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage.

  • When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

  • If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted to go out and get a new piercing. It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else.

  • When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  • To the sky, I rise / Spread my wings, and fly / I leave the past behind / And say goodbye to the scared child inside / I sing for freedom, and for love / I look at my reflection / Embrace the woman I've become / The unbreakable lotus in me / I now set free

  • Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go

  • When there's no one else look inside yourself -- like your oldest friend -- just trust the voice within -- then you'll find the strength that will guide your way. You'll learn to begin to trust the voice within.

  • My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

  • My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

  • I definitely love women. They are more attractive to the naked eye.

  • It's so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she's like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She's an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She's one of a kind.

  • That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

  • I've always been inspired even more by any naysayers to keep going for what I really want and they've almost been my inspiration many times more so than any positive people around me to conquer.

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

  • 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

  • Maybe best pop female vocal, I am kind of keeping my fingers crossed but you never know what is going on behind the scenes, but good bums come in all shapes and sizes

  • I watched the MTV Video Music Awards every year, telling myself that one day I'm going to be there, and it's like, finally - I made it!

  • I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing

  • Oh my God, you guys, I seriously do not have a speech prepared whatsoever. I'm shaking right now

  • I hope for the best, it's great to be nominated even once in your life

  • I wasn't expecting it [Grammy]... I'm such a newcomer among all these people

  • I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

  • I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

  • It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

  • People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.

  • It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.

  • Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

  • I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

  • When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

  • 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.

  • Whether you like me, or hate me, this is me.

  • Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.

  • I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

  • I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

  • I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.

  • It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

  • The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

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