It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

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!

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

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.