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.

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...

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...

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...

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.