Pink

“I live in America. I love being an American.”

“I have no idea why anyone likes me! I am very polarizing. It's either absolutely love or absolutely can't-be-around-for-more-than-three-seconds.”

“Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.”

“I think you learn more about yourself in the context of a relationship than you can outside of it.”

“I'd love to have time to do my hair, honestly. I'd love to be Victoria Beckham just for one day - to look that good. But I can't.”

“My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.”

“A lot of people have problems with public confrontation, but it doesn't worry me at all. I can handle myself. I know my martial arts.”

“I wanted to do it my way with my career, and I had this arrogant notion that people weren't just interested in my music but me as a person. That was my bit of arrogance, I guess. That's something I learned from Madonna. I was a fan right from the first time I heard 'Holiday.'”

“In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.”

“There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.”

“Big productions, to me, are great - like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows - but I think that sometimes it's distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.”

“Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before. It's also much easier - and much more fun.”

“The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.”

“I'm an asthmatic. I have to be on that treadmill singing to get my lungs right.”

“You can't move mountains by whispering at them.”

“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women's rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what's going on in Africa - it stops us from thinking in general.”

“My mom never wanted to be a grandmom. She never wanted to be a mom, really.”

“Having a child is the best thing that could happen.”

“The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.”

“When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.”