I am very protective. I just want to make sure that she can have a healthy, safe, normal life...in the back of my mind, she's my priority. And life is completely different now. I feel really, really just lucky that I can still do what I love, and now have a way bigger meaning. And that's to be her mother.

You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I don't understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat?

Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

I love my husband, but it is nothing like a conversation with a woman that understands you. I grow so much from those conversations.

I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.