I don’t want to be just a straight pop singer. I’m a vocalist and that’s what I want to be seen as in the long run.
Time heals everything. Sometimes you have to go through that pain and heartbreak so that you can get to the other side and come out on top.
The real beauty – inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.
I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It’s very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.
I love red and I think it’s more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
During that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I’ve always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage.
That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
Why is a woman’s sexuality always under so much scrutiny? Why can’t she do exactly what she please without being called a million things?
When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it’s hard to explain – like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It’s too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.
For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
Not to say that music today doesn’t have heart, but it’s really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.
Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I’m next.
I’ve found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I’m constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
It’s so weird to say this about the icon and legend that is Cher, but she’s like an old girlfriend. We still talk all the time. She’s an incredible person personally and professionally, giving such amazing advice, stories for days, been there done that. She’s one of a kind.
When you have a specific vision for something, you just go in and attack it.
Sometimes magazines will take artist’s creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole “Dirty” thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?
The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn’t think that?