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

It’s a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

Saturday Night Live was fun, really really fun. The changing lady was so quick, she almost tore my arm off after the opening monolouge.

“I always run stuff past my mum to check it doesn’t pass the taste barrier and she said they could have done a better job with it.” [About Dirrty SNL skit with Sarah Michelle Geller]

Basically, what I’m saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I’m up-front, I’m real, I’m honest and I’m open with my feelings.

I’m a lucky girl.

I have those days where I’m PMSing and bloated.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

You know what, I’m very interested in acting, but right now I’m busy promoting my album and going on tour because that’s my first love, but I’m very interested in doing some parts that may...

It [The Mickey Mouse Club] was a great way to grow up. I loved being around kids who had the same passions I did.

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.

For me the visual is just as important as the music.

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...

I feel so fortunate.

I have six-year-old fans that weren’t even around for ‘Genie in a Bottle’ or even ‘Fighter.’

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.

The roughest road often leads to the top.

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

The road is a lot of work.

So I am interested in acting, but offers that have come in are ‘small town girl wants to be a singer, has dreams and aspirations, makes it as a star.’ JLo could pull that off,...

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

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

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

I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what’s really on my mind.

I think it’s a given that people know what I can do vocally.

I don’t even watch my own show: I tape it, I’m out.

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

I turned down a part in “”Valley Of The Dolls”” because it depicted me as a singer and that’s the kind of movie I don’t want to do. I’d like a role similiar to many...

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

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

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...

I feel things deeply.

I really don’t spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Don’t Explain.

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

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

When you’re young, it’s so easy to get bull-dozed.

“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”.

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,

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

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

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

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn’t me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

I don’t have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

We are both grown-ups and have the utmost respect for each other personally and professionally. If certain journalists want to throw their integrity out the window by spreading false information, then so be it.