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- What
I write is all from my imagination. Fact is, I haven't had time
to experience all that, but that doesn't mean to say that I don't
write from the heart, because I do. I put myself in other women's
shoes, I can feel their pain and joy when I think about it. It's
all the same, we're all women.
- On
love: Full and unconditional trust of another. The desire
to be with them all the time, but the knowledge that you shouldn't
be with them all the time, and the ability to separate yourself.
And to come back to them.
- I
don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse
to be compared to, but if you really listen there's a difference.
- When
you start believing the hype, that's when you go downhill. I definitely
feel the same person I was two years ago when no one wanted to
listen to my tape. That's what keeps me grounded. Maybe because
I'm doing the same thing, music - that's what gives me the most
pleasure. The rush of being new and hot can fade - it will fade
- but the music will always be there.
- I
prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even
think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I
wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know
if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a
bulldozer. I still haven't marvelled at it.
- I've
been disillusioned a lot, especially in the past year. I think
I am being constantly let down. I'm sure I'm a giving person and
a loyal person. I've tried to hold onto friends from High School,
but suddenly it's like Oh I know her I'm like a topic of conversation.
Since I was a kid I've always always thought of myself as a hard-ass,
street-wise, not vulnerable - but I am.
- Maybe
someone will hear one of my singles and go, Oh please, that's
such a tired lyric. And I acknowledge, yeah, I just had to get
that finished - it fit but wasn't the most moving line I ever
wrote. But then you look at album tracks like The Wind which is
about a friend of mine who died because of a drunk driving accident.
- Any
women operating within the genre are competing for radio play
and chart space, but that's as far as it goes. Janet Jackson has
a record out the same week as me? Good. There's room for everyone.
- I'll
just say that my family has problems, and some are more intense
than others.
- If
you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am
and what I have been through.
- I've
grown up doing this. But a lot of weird jealousy crap comes into
play, from people I thought were true friends, people I brought
all over the country with me and did all I could or, who turned
out to be vicious and back-stabbing.
- 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.
- I'm
grateful for my success, even though things happened very quickly
for me. I knew I never would have given up, no matter how long
it would have taken me to get here.
- When
I wear something on stage I have to be super careful of the details.
I can't wear anything that's extremely tight fitting in the middle
section, because I need so much abdominal control to hit the high
notes. I can't risk anything.
- I
think there are some artists out there who have gone over board
with the fashion thing. I think it really hurt their careers.
I don't need to be done up like a Barbie doll. I don't want the
fashion to outshine the music. I'm not one of those people who
feels I need to change my look every five minutes, because I'm
overcompensating for, uh, other areas.
- It's
hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you
know? They don't know me.
- I'm
really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky
to be where I am.
- 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.
- If
you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am
and what I've been through.
- There's
never been anything else in my life that inspired me at all. It's
crazy, but I've always loved music and I've always known this
was what I wanted to do. I can't remember a time when I didn't
want to be a singer.
- 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.
- The
truth is that you can't make people go into a store and buy an
album, the music has to do that... The success I am having is
because of the people relating to my music.
- People
all of a sudden just see me and hear me having hit records and
it seems to have come out of the blue. But really I have been
working towards this my whole life, and this is what I say when
people say I haven't paid my dues.
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