I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.
I’m always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It’s difficult being a woman. It’s so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.
Independnce comes from you knowing who you are and you being happy with yourself.
Being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There’s no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you so, of course, you want to scream it out and tell everyone.
It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.
At some point, it’s very important to me that my daughter is able to experience life and run through the sprinklers and have slumber parties and trust and live and do all the things that any child should be able to do.
Right now, after giving birth, I really understand the power of my body. I just feel my body means something completely different.
Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?
I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.
Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.
But I don’t know what guys I like because I haven’t been out with enough to know. I’m still learning.
Just because you become a mother, it doesn’t mean you lose who you are.
I don’t use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.
Everyone’s not good at everything, it’s ok to depend on someone.
I love the Backstreet Boys! I think they’re very talented and I think their harmony is wonderful.
To me it’s sexier when it doesn’t look like you go to the gym. I feel best when I’m not really thin and not really heavy – when I’m still curvy.
You have to have something that is forever, something that is invisible.
I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
Have your own life before you become somebody’s wife.
My parents taught my sister and me the importance of giving back and making a difference in another person’s life.
I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do.