If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.
Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.
There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.
Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar.
When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.
The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.
I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show.
I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.
I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.
The more successful I become, the more I need a man.
I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous.
I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
To be able to travel the world, especially to places I never thought I'd be... it's really, you know, still fascinating for me.
We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.
I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.
I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.
I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
