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  • I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

  • Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.

  • Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

  • I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

  • Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

  • My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

  • My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

  • I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.

  • I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

  • This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

  • If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don't let go! You can make it, make it happen

  • You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

  • I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

  • I'm not great at putting my hair into a bun, but I'll do it if I have to.

  • Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You're all I know. I can't let go.

  • I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

  • I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

  • One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

  • You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

  • I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.

  • My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

  • We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

  • It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

  • Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

  • The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

  • You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

  • I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marvelled at it.

  • I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

  • So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.

  • I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

  • Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

  • When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I'd never be, I'd never be the same.

  • Don't you know that you're blowing my mind? What you do to me I can't describe. Baby, I can't hold back anymore. I just can't conceal it. You're the one I really adore.

  • I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them. I was in agony. My high heels had left my feet bleeding. Laugh all you want, my feet hurt

  • I can't wear flat shoes. My feet repel them.

  • I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

  • If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.

  • There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

  • When it comes to lingerie, I know what I'm doing.

  • It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

  • If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

  • You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength.

  • See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

  • We've all been influenced by other people...If Minnie Riperton never existed, would I have even thought of singing in that (upper) register? I doubt it.

  • No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

  • I don't want a boyfriend just for the sake of it. I don't trust most people out there. There's too much at risk and I don't need to be a notch on somebody's bedpost. I'll flirt with you all night long, but then it's buh, bye!

  • Only once in a lifetime love rushes in, changing you with the tide.

  • I can make it through the rain, I can stand up once again, on my own, and I know, that I'm strong enough to mend, and every time I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith, and I live one more day and I make it through the rain.

  • It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic.

  • Father, thanks for reaching out and lovingly,saying that you've always been proud of me,I needed to feel that so desperately,you're always alive inside of me.

  • You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

  • It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

  • when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

  • I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

  • I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,'... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.

  • A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

  • Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

  • In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

  • It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings.

  • I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

  • Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

  • She smiles through a thousand tears, and harbors adolescent fears. She dreams of all that she can never be, she wades in insecurity.

  • I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

  • I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.

  • Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

  • People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'

  • I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.

  • If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

  • If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

  • Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

  • I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

  • I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

  • But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

  • After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

  • Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

  • Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

  • Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

  • Especially since I stared studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment.

  • Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel

  • Everyday is a holiday with me.

  • I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

  • I didn't have a strong male figure in my life on a day-to-day basis. So I think that whole [marriage] situation, a lot of it stems from a place where I was out there alone as a really and I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me.

  • I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.

  • I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

  • I have memories of Australia that I'll just never ever get over

  • I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

  • I know you're shining down on me from Heaven, like so many friends we've lost along the way. And I know eventually we'll be together, one sweet day.

  • I listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever's on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

  • I look around and see the things I have, and I remember not having them. That is one thing that keeps me grounded. I'm definitely the same person I was. . . . I never lose me, I never lose the real person.

  • I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular

  • I really rebel against authority.

  • I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn't believe the poems I'd bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

  • I think one of the reasons I pushed myself so hard and worked so hard is because I never felt special.

  • I think that for me personally, a lot of my choices have been to do with my own issues of not feeling safe as a child and feeling a sense of stability.

  • I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

  • I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

  • If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness

  • If you just believe in me. I will love you endlessly.

  • I'm experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it's appropriate I do it on the record.

  • I'm far from perfect. I'm still learning. I overworked myself, and I paid the price. I consider the breakdown a breakthrough. I needed to hit rock bottom. I needed to understand the cost of pushing so hard; fighting so hard against the system. ..

  • I'm not a subscriber to walking into large corporate entities that I have to walk into and be waiting in line, because then I have to stand there.

  • I'm not for the villains, I'm only for the princesses. I mean it's fun to have Jafar [Aladdin cartoon villain] or whatever; I didn't even remember their names 'cause they're not important to me.

  • I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

  • I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

  • I'm so thankful that I've received The answer that heaven has sent down to me You treated me kind Sweet destiny And I'll be eternally grateful

  • I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

  • I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

  • I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

  • It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.

  • Lord knows Dreams are hard to follow But don't let anyone Tear them away Hold on There will be tomorrow In time you'll find the way And then a hero comes along With the strength to carry on And you cast your fears aside And you know you can survive So when you feel like hope is gone Look inside you and be strong And you'll finally see the truth That a hero lies in you

  • Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don't let anyone tear them away.

  • Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

  • Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

  • One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

  • People are always asking, 'Is everything ok?' Look, I was not depressed, ok? I was just freaking exhausted.

  • People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

  • Pregnancy was probably the best and the hardest thing I'll ever go through. I know for a lot of women, it can be wonderful and relatively easy.

  • Right now Jack lives with me. Jack is my Jack Russell. I also have a Yorkie named Ginger, but Jack and Ginger can't be in the same place at the same time because she is very jealous. Even if Jack's not in the same state, she would growl if she heard his name.

  • Sipping Bailey's Cream by the stereo, trying to find relief on the radio. I'm suppressing the tears.

  • Sometimes it's tough because I've got to sleep 15 hours to sing the way I want to. It's not easy because my vocal chords are different than most people's.

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