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It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home.
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I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.
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Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
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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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I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
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I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.
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Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
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When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.
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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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I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
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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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Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go
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I still got the nasty in me.
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That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
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The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?
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You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.
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There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.
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I'm a big micro manager; I'm a stickler about organisation; everything needs a place, a purpose, and micro managing myself even when I'm in the studio.
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When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
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I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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I’ve never watched an entire episode of "American Idol." It’s too mean. Why would anyone want to go on a show to be ripped apart? I don’t want to be tough with my singers, but I do want to tell them on "The Voice" that if you really want this, you’ll be kicked when you’re down. You have to be willing to roll with those punches. You have to really want it.
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People don't always want to have females as leaders.