I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.
My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.
Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I’m just a woman and I love being a woman. If you’re attractive then you can’t be sexy, and you can’t be intelligent? What is all of that?
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don’t make as much money as men do. I don’t understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?
It’s all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.
Beauty fades. Your spirit is forever.
We’re not exposed to a lot of guys.
You can’t put your finger on who I am. I can’t put my finger on who I am.
My daughter introduced me to myself.
I want to be a legend, like Celine Dion.
I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.
Destiny’s Child will always be No.1 on my list.
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist – whatever you want to be – and still be a sexual being. It’s not mutually exclusive.
Love is so blind, it feels right when it’s wrong.
You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don’t mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it’s scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.
Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.
When you’re famous no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public. There’s nothing real about it.
I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
Me, myself and I. That’s all I got in the end.
There’s definitely a dangerous feeling when you’re in love-it’s giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that’s the dangerous thing.