- When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me
- I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain
- Like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain
- It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, "Too Beautiful For Words"
At a really early age I connected with old soul and blues. My grandma used to take me to little record stores around Pittsburgh and buy me old records. I was 6, and I'd sing the songs at block parties. My grandma would get a kick out of hearing me do material that was far beyond my years. I was known around the neighborhood as the little girl with the big voice, and I always liked that contrast.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Newsweek, July 31, 2006
There's a witch under this hair.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
Even when I was little, I knew I was meant to perform. I would watch specials on TV or videos of Janet or Whitney, and I would start crying because I was like "I want that so bad!"
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Allure Magazine, Apr. 16, 2002
- I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over
- I just wanna live simple and free.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, "Make Over"
I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
There's nothin' more dangerous than a boy with charm.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, "Candyman"
For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
I don't see makeup as a defense. I see it as a creative outlet. I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage--and at times I feel extremely weak. And who's to say a little mascara doesn't make you feel more confident when you pop it on and look in the mirror? It helps, especially in my position, where I have people waiting down the street to take pictures of me so they can evaluate and criticize every little flaw on my face.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Allure Magazine, Apr. 16, 2002
I think women are sensual, beautiful beings, and I feel empowered when I express myself sexually.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
People take sex far too seriously.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Newsweek, July 31, 2006
For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, International Herald Tribune, Jul. 28, 2006
Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Rolling Stone, Aug. 24, 2006
If you are a woman and you're assertive and you want to get the job done, you're a bitch. If you're a guy, you're just assertive.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
- When there's no one else
- Look inside yourself
- Like your oldest friend
- Just trust the voice within
- Then you'll find the strength
- That will guide your way
- You'll learn to begin
- To trust the voice within
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, "A Voice Within"
The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
Not to say that music today doesn't have heart, but it's really few and far between because technology has advanced itself so much that anybody can be a singer. Back in the day, you had to know how to sing.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, People Magazine Online, Jul. 21, 2006
The female form is much more erotic than the male, who doesn't think that?
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Hindustan Times, Jul. 22, 2006
- Why is a woman's sexuality
- Always under so much scrutiny?
- Why can't she do exactly what she please
- Without being called a million things?
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, "Still Dirty"
Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
I still got the nasty in me.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, International Herald Tribune, Jul. 28, 2006
That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, Glamour Magazine, Jan. 2007
You are beautiful no matter what they say.
CHRISTINA AGUILERA, "Beautiful"
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