Quotes

I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.

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.

If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

I take an active role in my imaging and how I look.

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'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

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'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.

To do what you love can sometimes be stressful.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

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.

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.

I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.

I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.

I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

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'm in love with kid's stories and animation.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1" and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.

Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.

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.

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

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.

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.

Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.

I let everybody else's negative energy feed on me a little.

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?