I've become a pretty tough cookie after having a divorce. I think that I've persevered through a lot of talk.

Ah swear, ah will croak if she asks me for a pair of Nikes instead of Christian Louboutins!

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

No matter how much money you spend to make yourself beautiful - with all the products, the diets, the plastic surgery - in the end, women need to fall in love with themselves and realize they're wonderfully made.

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.