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.

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.

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

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

Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I'm just a woman and I love being a woman. If you're attractive then you can't be sexy, and you can't be intelligent? What is all of that?

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.

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview