"You know what, I'm very attracted to someone who makes me laugh and is that charming. Really, I could be charmed by anyone. I'm just a sucker for somebody that is charming."

"When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested."

"In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission."

"I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse."

"I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life."

"Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe."

"If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!"

"I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show."

"I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I'd get on stage and be able to break out of my shell."

"Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England."

"We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."

"If he invited you out, he's got to pay."

"I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out."

"Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life."

"I've worn dresses from all different price ranges, and the thing that couture dresses have in common is that the fit is amazing."

"I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation."

"I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair."

"I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated."

"I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am."

"Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does."

"We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty."

"I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence."

"We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date."

"I think it's healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show."

"When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think."

"Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice."

"For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It's where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that's very important to me."

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow."

"I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough."

"I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let's face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what's sexy. And men define what's feminine. It's ridiculous."

"When I was writing the Destiny's Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn't know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it."

"I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way."

"I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus."

"I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."

"I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on."

"Tina Turner is someone that I admire, because she made her strength feminine and sexy. Marilyn Monroe, because she was a curvy woman. I'm drawn to things that have the same kind of silhouettes as what she wore because our bodies are similar."

"Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves."

"I probably wasted a couple of thousand dollars on some dumb-ass clothes."

"As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see."

"Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law."

"Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give."

"Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name."

"Million dollar deals in my email, you mad as hell you ain't CC'ed"

"Eminem was the biggest rapper in the world, but I didn't know Eminem and I didn't know anybody who knew Eminem."

"I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want."

"Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am."

"I think it's tacky to have chains that go all the way down to your crotch."

"Chains and stuff are nice, don't get me wrong I love them and I wear chains, but I can do without it."

"I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually."

"Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit"