A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

I understand people want to hold on to their roots.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

I've seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don't think that's who I am.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Since having the babies, I realize that 90 percent of losing weight is my diet.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted.

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Never, never listen to anybody that try to discourage you.

One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting.

I don't think anyone knows as much about what's right for me as I do.

I'd rather be onstage with a pig - a duet with Jennifer Lopez and me just ain't going to happen.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.