With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
I felt I had a responsibility to do the right thing. And then I wanted to do the right thing by my family and there was no handbook.
Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
You can’t change the past so don’t let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you’ve got to want to.
Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child...
My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That’s my job. And that’s where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I’m not only their mother. I’m still who I was before, I just don’t get to be it all the time.
I wasn’t a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
When the first record came out, I’d go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they’d tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren’t sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
I read somewhere that we are all more than we know. And I really believe that. Everybody is worth something, and think of all the amazing things that you could be to each other, to people you don’t even know, of all the things that you could accomplish.
Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that’s okay with me. But I’m not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn’t interest me; it’s boring.
But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.
I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.
I don’t care who’s on the label, because I have a job to do.
When you have children your life – this is my job and that’s my life. So it’s a totally different thing. They’re my priority, they have to be, and they always will be. I have to do them first. So this always gets pushed in the back.
There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She’s just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
We’ll just play it cool, like Elvis at 19.
You’re a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don’t you mess around with me.
We can’t afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It’s a do or die situation, we will be invincible.
It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
It’s really hard to make records and concentrate and have a free mind, because I have this whole other life. If you don’t have kids it’s a whole other thing. I think you can be fifty and still have a rock and roll lifestyle; you can still perpetuate that.