If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.

The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. You have to see them!

Being a mother is probably the hardest job in the world. I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Everybody Out There....Dont take ANYBODY for granted.Cause you never know when you might lose them,and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel