1. To do what you love can sometimes be stressful. 2. I am fed up with men who use sex like a sleeping pill.
3. I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.
5. I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White.
6. I know for works for me - those wonderful sad love songs.
7. I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
9. I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.
10. I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
12. If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.
13. Like Scarlett O'Hara, I won't be broke again.
14. Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do.
16. Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.
17. I always wanted to fit in, but kids never accepted me. So I said: "One day, I'll show them".
18. I didn't know if my music still fit or how people would receive me.
20. I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.
21. I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.
22. I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.
24. I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.
25. I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?
27. I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.
28. I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.
30. I've always been able to do sprinkles of hip-hop here and there in all my albums, but I'm not sure how my fans are gonna feel about coming out first with something that's so hip-hop.
31. I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.
32. If anyone did any harm to my children, I don't know what I would do.
34. It was a hard road; I would be performing, and on my off days, I would be in court.
35. It's been 10 years of success. They're the only family I've known, career-wise. I became nervous and scared. I almost fell victim to what they thought.
36. People don't believe that I can really do all of these things. I can really play the piano; I've been playing since I was 14.
37. People don't understand this business.
38. Pretty much everything I wanted to get back I was able to get back, my Grammys and my Soul Train Awards, in particular.
40. Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.
41. The resentfulness is starting to show. I feel a little resentful today.
42. There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.
44. When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.
45. When I watched "American Idol", I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like: "It was absolutely horrid". That's what they tell in the music industry.
47. Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.
48. You can never go back to the first two albums in a career.
49. You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.
51. I'm thrilled to be going out on the road again. I can't wait to bring not only the hits that people know and love but to share the new music from Libra with the audience.
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