I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

You can't just turn love on and off.

I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.

My father was a beautiful man.

It's very hard to be honest with yourself when something's just not working.

I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.

How could such a powerful animal possess so generous a temperament as to carry man obediently and thoughtfully through the ages

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

I don't take any day for granted anymore.

I really can't imagine not singing again.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

It's more important to be comfortable with you weight, no matter what it is, as long as you are healthy and energetic to meet the personal goals and demands you have set in your life.

I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.

It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.

It's really such a personal journey, making a record, but even more so writing the songs.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.

I like being at home and cooking.

Now that I have and I'm not a have-not, I've learned how important it is to maintain humility.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

I'm like everybody else.

Sting I've seen a few times, and he really inspired me in the sense that he breaks the songs down a lot and will take a different approach. He'll take an acoustic approach to them; he'll rearrange them for the live stage.

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.

In a way, we women take on more than we need to sometimes.

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

I love the role that men play in our lives.

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

I want to be successful, but I don't really have what it takes to do it comfortably.

I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.

I enjoy sports in person.

I'd like to see the Olympics live. I've only watched it on television.

I've been performing my whole life.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.