My audience are the same people who bought my albums years ago. These people are now married, with their own homes, their own families. If I'm in concert, I get people now who bring their kids.

I am woman, hear me roar.

If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.