Musician Quotes

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

It was considered oh, not proper for children to go to the movies.

It never occurred to me that I looked like a movie star.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.

I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies.

I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I just liked the idea of being engaged.

I had no musical training at all.

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

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

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 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 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.

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

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!

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.

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

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

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

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.

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.

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