You're the Picasso of pain.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

My most important inspirational job that I do is raising those kids. That's my job. And that's where my ambition goes. But I have a life. I'm not only their mother. I'm still who I was before, I just don't get to be it all the time.

I have different reasons for the way that I react to things now that I have kids. It's not about me, it's about my children going out into this world that makes me say, "What the hell are you all doing?" I have to put them out there, and then I have to worry.

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.