- Once you stay true to just having a good time and being honest to your fans and your audience, you can't go wrong.
- Dancing is another way to communicate. That's what separates The Pussycat Dolls from other groups.
- I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'
- I think shoulders are sexier than cleavage.
- I see lots of women having beautiful children later in life. And, if not, just freeze your eggs!
- I love what I do and I strive to be better; that's what keeps me going. I'm never a slacker, always a striver.
- I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.
- In normal life people say, 'You're so different than on stage!' Offstage I'm down to earth, simple and a very goofy girl... I like to make goofy faces, be dorky and not take things too seriously. I just love to laugh.
- If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realizing your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.
- I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He has to make me laugh. I like a man who is very ambitious and driven and who has a good heart and makes me feel safe. I like a man who is very strong and independent and confident - that is very sexy - but at the same time, he's very kind to people.
- It's important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It's OK to have curves and to work them.
- You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.
- I don't really believe in diets. I love food... If I deprive myself, I'm going to want it more. I snack on yogurt, raw cashews and cherry tomatoes.
- I can be quite daring with my clothes but I believe that you have to feel comfortable and confident to carry off whatever it is you're wearing.
- Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
- Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.
- A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
- I'm definitely not the type to have a sing-off. I'm not catty like that. I sing for the right reasons.
- I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.
- I've never seen myself as sexy. I see myself as a goofball.
- It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.
- Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.
- My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.
- My favorite songs are the ones that really come from the heart.
- To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.
- You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.
- Although religion was around me my whole life I never felt it was forced upon me. It is my centering, my grounding, the soul of me. I feel I'm nothing without it.
- Growing up, I was very conservative in my wardrobe, so when I first joined The Pussycat Dolls, the biggest challenge was wearing those cabaret costumes. I didn't feel comfortable showing my body so much, showing my legs and butt, chest and midriff.
- Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!
- I come from a strong religious background, and I had a very conservative upbringing. So I was nervous, and confused. Here I was wanting to be Whitney Houston, so why did I have to dress in lingerie to do that? I didn't get it.
- I definitely have the eye of the tiger. I've fought my way to where I am and will continue to do so. I'm a hard worker - I get it from my family. We only know work. Nothing was handed to us. When I believe in something, I go after it. It's very hard to tell me 'no.'
- I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.
- I never know if a song's going to be popular so I don't select them with that in mind. All I can do is follow my heart and my gut and go for songs that make me feel great.
- I think the sexiest thing about a man is that he's confident. Sure, sometimes you meet someone and you see his appearance first, but then you get to know him, and he looks completely different to you.
- I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
- I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren't too many Hawaiian-Filipino girls, so I stuck out like a sore thumb. I didn't look like everyone else and didn't feel I belonged... But these things only build character and make you stronger. It taught me to grow into the woman I was to become.
- I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.
- I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.
- I'm no diva but I can be annoying in a recording studio. Of course I try to be a diva in terms of confidence of performance and owning a song but I've never behaved like one in terms of the negative connotations of the word.
- I'm way better in person than I am on things like Twitter. I know Twitter is the best and fastest way to connect with fans who really appreciate you but I'm still not cool with it - although I am trying! I try my best but I'm a one-on-one person and I don't want to tell people I'm on the toilet or I just brushed my teeth.
- I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever success I've had. I've always envisioned myself higher than where I was and I still do. With each success I think, 'That's nice but I'm supposed to go there!'
- It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humor like me.
- Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.
- The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.
- When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.
- When I'm a mum, I'm not going to be one of those mums who has nannies. Actually, I might have nannies - never say never - but I'm not having someone else raise my kids.
- When you break a sweat you just feel great. You've got your endorphins going. You feel better. You look better. And if you aren't able to get a workout in, try to find a steam room somewhere. You just look and feel so much better after a sweat.
- [webchat with Stylist Magazine, June 2014]) I would really love to dabble in acting - I'd love to do films but that will take time. An actress I really admire is Marion Cotillard, also Cameron Diaz. Beautiful strong women who aren't afraid to be goofy...
- We're one big happy dysfunctional family. I don't know if I'm all that jazz, but [the response is] nice. I didn't know how people were going to take me coming here. I just said to myself, I've got a lot of ammunition in my back pocket because I've worked really hard in the industry for a very long time. I'm here to be true to myself, I'm going to be honest I'm going to be the best mentor ever that I can possibly be and try and have some fun with it, bring some energy that's all I'm trying to do, I never know what's going to happen. [on the recent bust-up between Gary and Tulisa - when he accused the N-Dubz star of having "fag ash breath"] I would have said, 'Don't you miss it, darling!' [mimes smoking] I've never smoked a cigarette though. I didn't even know what they were talking about. We don't have that slang in America. Sometimes stuff just comes out of my mouth, you never know what's going to come out. I didn't know I was going to talk about baby oil [last weekend (27.10.12)]. I'm just like, 'What is happening right now? Yep, I'm talking about baby oil on national TV.'
- [Sting's] energy is very commanding, in a subtle way. He is giving, generous and kind. I flew to Boston for his show with The Police. I met him and he was everything and more than I thought. I felt like we were doing yoga when we were singing. He was such an easy guy to work with... Singing on the same mic you are really close. He had fresh breath. No broccoli in the teeth.
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