When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

We need to stop buying into the myth about gender equality. It isn't a reality yet. Today, women make up half of the U.S. workforce, but the average working woman earns only 77 percent of what the average working man makes. But unless women and men both say this is unacceptable, things will not change.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

I've had the same car for five years - it's a convertible Jag which I bought with my own money. It's very Austin Powers.

You're everything I thought you never were and nothing like I thought you could've been.

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.