When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
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!
There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!
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'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.
If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.
Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
I really rebel against authority.
People are like, 'What is your whole obsession with butterflies?' I'm like, 'I'm not obsessed. I like them. Can't anybody like something?'
I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.
In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.
You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'
Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.
I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.
Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.
I could do my own nails... I went to beauty school in the 11th grade. But why would I do that now?
Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.
So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you'll finally see the truth - that a hero lies in you.
You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.
I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.
I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.
I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.
I've seen other artists put out movies that went straight to DVD, and no one cared. Maybe their own fans bought the thing, and that was fine.
Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.
A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.
I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.
