Phrases
1. “Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don’t let them ever count you out.”
2. “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.”
3. “There is a light at the end of the tunnel… hopefully its not a freight train!”
4. “Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.”
5. “No stress, no fights. I’m leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.”
6. “Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!”
7. “I don’t think anyone knows as much about what’s right for me as I do.”
8. “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.”
9. “Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.”
10. “My goal is to have a career that stands.”
11. “Don’t take anybody for granted. Cause you never know when you might lose them, and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel.”
12. “It’s kind of like being on a roller coaster. If you don’t get on the ride, you won’t experience the adventure.”
13. “My fans have made all my career moments special for me. They are the ones that have gotten me through every single thing – good times and bad, they are who I go to and lean on. I am very thankful for that. ”
14. “I think the greatest gift to me is that I can express myself in songs. It helps me get through some of the hardest times of my life. It also helps me celebrate some of the best times.”
15. “This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream – don’t ever give up!”
16. “But I think I’m a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.”
17. “Cause there’s a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can’t take that away from me.”
18. “In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.”
19. “If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.”
20. “I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don’t take it too seriously.”
21. “Time is irrelevant to me. I never wear a watch.”
22. “I’m actually very loyal, to my detriment.”
23. “After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.”
24. “We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons. I’m just in a really good, comfortable, happy place.”
25. “It’s in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I’m clearly dramatic.”
26. “When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.”
27. “Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.”
28. “Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I’m always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what’s going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn’t very present prior to that.”
29. “I started singing when I started talking.”
30. “I try not to be a jerk. I really do. I try to be nice and cordial.”
31. “I’m very hard on myself and I have too many issues.”
32. “The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.”
33. “I’ve seen the real extreme diva behavior and I don’t think that’s who I am.”
34. “The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing.”
35. “I never thought that I would have love again, but it’s amazing how the universe brings love to you.”
36. “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.’”
37. “If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.”
38. “I think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age. Honestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it’s just like, Why? Why do that?”
39. “It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.”40. “I’ve been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.”
41. “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.”
42. “Forget the image, forget the ensemble, forget the rumors, forget the short skirts, the big hair, whatever! I owe this to the fans and I will never forget you so I want to accept this award on behalf of all of you.”
43. “Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.”
44. “I do all of my own stunts in videos. The Jet Ski scenes, the fight scenes, all of them!”
45. “Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it’s almost, ‘Let it go already.’ It’s intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.”
46. “I’m not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.”