..And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried
I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.
To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.
If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.
If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.
I love my family, I'll do anything for them.
I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
I love dishes and house things so I kind of lost it a little bit on the house ware. One-thousand thread-count sheets, that's what I indulged in.
I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
You don't want a whole bunch of yes people around you.
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.
I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.
I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.
I'm in love with kid's stories and animation.
I can live a totally normal life and do everything I want to do just as long as I take my medication. My body will give me signals if it gets weak or fatigued, so I know when I need to take a break.
I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.
My ideal kinda guy, if I was really gonna go there even though he's married, is Mark Wahlberg. To me he's a little black and white, the kinda guy who would understand if I pull my weave out.
In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.
Although becoming a singer was my plan A after first hearing Whitney Houston when I was 17, I started off with plan B by going to the teacher-training college that my dad went to. It was a slow coming of age.
I had a 23 per cent blockage in my micro-arteries. At first the doctors thought I needed a heart transplant, then they said I have microvascular angina, which means I will be on medication for the rest of my life.
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter.
But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.
When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.
How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.
Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.
I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.
...And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried.
I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.
And i can't get you out of my head, how in the world will i begin to let you walk right out my life and blow my heart away?
I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?
I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.
I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.
I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.
I let everybody else's negative energy feed on me a little.
I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.
You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.
First thing early Monday morning I'm gonna pack my tears away Got no cause to look back I'm lookin' for me a better day
You took the ease off my mind And put it behind You were there for all my needs So baby please stay
The point may not be to make sense of the most difficult situations. It could be that we're here to learn how to breathe through them.
