Christina Aguilera Quotes
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I'm experimental by nature... always exploring my creativity.
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
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I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.
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I was born in Staten Island, New York. But I call my hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, because that's basically where I ended up from age eight on. But right after Staten Island... I've lived everywhere from Texas, to Japan for three years, to New Jersey. I'm this traveling girl. My father was in the Army, so I guess I'm an Army brat.
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I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic.
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It's important to take time for your spouse and nurture the relationship.
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I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.
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A lot of people are afraid to face themselves, especially when something goes wrong. But that's important, because if something happens within a relationship, it could be how you're allowing someone else to treat you.
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I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.
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When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.
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I was 21. At the time, I was under the thumb of my label, and I felt like I had to do, say and act out everything they asked me to do. I was trying to please them and the public and finally I had to say, "Enough. I'm going to make a record that makes me happy and addresses all facets of being a woman. I don't care if I sell one or one million records." That's how I came to make Stripped.
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In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.
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Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go
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If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted to go out and get a new piercing. It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else.
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Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.
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People take sex far too seriously.
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I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.
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Whether you like me, or hate me, this is me.
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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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He's the one guy I can credit for making me think about marriage in a whole new light, because every guy I've had in my life has either lied or cheated me financially or business-wise, or taken advantaged of me.
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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.
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It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
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My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.