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Since I was a kid - youngest of five kids - I've always been starved for attention, like 'Look at me! Look at me! Look what I can do!'
I feel really fortunate to come from a home that was always supportive and stemming from creativity, integrity and building character.
As a dancer, you learn the importance of transitional moments. If you figure out what you can do next, that's how you don't get stuck.
I don't really have an average week, and because I travel so much with my job, it means I don't always have a typical weekend, either.
Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
Of course for a Colombian girl it was always impossible to even imagine becoming an international popstar, but my dream became reality.
If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
The Spirit speaks directly to our hearts through music. That's why music has always had such power to move people into positive action.
I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.
I spend most of my life naked. In fact, I often have to be told by the people around me that it's inappropriate to be as naked as I am.
That's not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. ... A lot of people probably did, I don't know, [but I did not].
I read Dad's books like I did before, now things are crystal clear. Lock the door in the bathroom, now I just can't get caught in here.
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.
We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.
I mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.
Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.
I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.
When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.
They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.
Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...
What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it!
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.
Eyes are very appealing to me. I also like somebody who is interested in a career for themselves and can treat me like a normal person.
There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.
It doesn't matter the genre or type of art, if it's authentic there's an apparent beauty to it and as an artist, that's very inspiring.
I consider myself to be a crusader of love. I try to spread love around the world as best I can because I know I have a handle on love.
'Doo-wop' is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.
If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock 'n' roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.
My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.
I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!
The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.
Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.
We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.
I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).
Erykah Badu projects don't even sound like Erykah Badu projects. I don't even have one album that sounds like another one of my albums.
I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.
I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.
The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.
When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
I was going to study at the Sorbonne and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.
The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.
My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet.
I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within.