 I feel I want to grow as an actress and be better. I want to progress as a singer and songwriter, and produce movies and everything. So there'll be no time when I feel I've done it all. |
| And I love the idea of spending the whole day in bed with my lover. |
| My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing. |
| There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly. |
| People equate sexy with promiscuous. They think that because I'm shaped this way, I must be scandalous - like running around and bringing men into my hotel room. But it's just the opposite. |
| I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself. |
| People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there. |
| You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them. |
| If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged. |
| It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else. |
| The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go. |
| I judge people on how they smell, not how they look. |
| I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work. |
| I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments. |
| I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. |
| But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older. |
