It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.

I'm used to getting up at 7, getting breakfast, getting the kids off to school, and doing the mommy thing and the wife thing and the daughter thing.

I'm in love, sweet love. Feel me calling out your name, I feel no shame.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Chris Brown is brilliant. That cat is crazy brilliant, and I wish him the best.

I don't even have voice mail, and people get all out of shape about that. But, you know what, I don't want to transcribe your message; I want to talk to you. And that kind of freaks people out a bit. They go, 'Oh, who has time to talk?' and I'm like, 'Well, I'm gonna make time.

I think there's no sacrifice too great for family, whether it's career, singing, whatever.