I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.

I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.

I’m not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

I’d rather be onstage with a pig – a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain’t going to happen.

I hope to be around past the 90’s. I don’t want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream – don’t ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train!

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn’t really fit in anywhere.

Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.

If critics have problems with my personal life, it’s their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it’s the charts that count.

Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumours, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me – I’m tan, I guess.

I don’t mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don’t take it too seriously.

A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don’t think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.