We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

There's my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

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.

As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.