To me it's sexier when it doesn't look like you go to the gym. I feel best when I'm not really thin and not really heavy - when I'm still curvy.

Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?

There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.

I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.