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 of Angelina Jolie’s. A little gritty, but interesting to watch.

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 back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever I do, it’s my business. It’s not my job to parent America.

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 hate working out – I have to mentally push myself through it. I can get very whiny, saying things like, ‘I can’t do it!’

I’m at peace.

It’s like, wow, she had a baby! That’s crazy! I’m overjoyed and thrilled for her,

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

Getting older, you just don’t want to sing fluffy.

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

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.

Ooh, that was just a little phase (smashing plates to relieve pain). I don’t do that any more but it was good fun, a release. I recommend it to everybody. That’s as long as you’re not hurting anybody. And find a place where you’re not going to be in the way of anything. Oh and...

I want to have something that’s different to the way I’ve been portrayed. I admire Angelina Jolie – she acts tough but is still sexy.

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.

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

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

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.

The utmost respect for each other

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

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

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

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

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

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