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Quotes:
About Stripped:
"If you wanted to know what I was up to on my last tour, or even with my last boyfriend, just listen,"

"I wanted to make a record that was about me completely. Nothing superficial, no hype, no gloss," she told Rolling Stone. "When you're 17, you're green. I fell into something that wasn't quite me. Being 21 now, I've grown into more of what I feel like as a woman. This album is definitely my baby."

I feel stronger now. Being in a breakup [with dancer Jorge Santos] was really hard for me — that was the first knockdown [during] the making of this record that set me back. He was the love of my life, and that was really, really hard to go through. I thought, why now, when I've got to get this record done? I feel really lucky to have the people that are around me now and who have [gone] through it with me.

About the Dirrty video:

"That's just a side of me I was exploring, being comfortable with my 21-year-old side, being comfortable with my body and sexuality and being unafraid to show that.

"Especially as a female living in a world where there's such double standards in society: a guy can be sexy in a video and a girl can't without being labelled."

"I felt it was important, with me being comfortable with all of that, that I can portray that in my video. But that's not an image that's going to be portrayed in all my music videos."

About her new image:

"The label (RCA Records) wanted to push the cookie-cutter, kind of play-it-safe, almost virginal kind of imagery that wasn't me," she says.

"I really wanted to squirm away from that[her old image], because I really thought it was really fake and superficial and untrue of what I was about, and it was really really hard for me to live up to that anymore."

"I thought by this time the teen pop thing would still be here. But I see now it is changing anyway," she says. "To keep my own sanity, regardless of where the music industry was going to go, I needed to be myself."

My old management had [my face] on everything — puzzles for 99 cents, little crayons with your name on them. Cheesy stuff. I look back now and wish that was handled in a different light, because that wasn't me — the whole image, the long, straight blond hair, the smile and certain clothes. It was hard for me to put that smile on my face and just go with it. That's why I showed up at the Grammys with braids — it's just trying to put a little more me in there than — I'm not your cookie-cutter pop singer.

About her success:

"Even though I've been screwed over by certain people," she told Rolling Stone, "there's a time where it's like, 'I'm going to show you all.' And it's OK, because I'm going to survive."

"Every year, I used to blow out the candles on my cake and my wish was to be a star. I wanted to be what I'm doing right now. It's crazy!"

"When I see these people chanting and screaming and holding those signs that they made just for me, my eyes light up and my whole body just lifts!"

"Everyone wants a piece of you. Good and Bad. They either want to put you down or talk to you. All these people are pulling, just pulling at you

"Just seeing my name at No.1 on a Billboard chart --It's always been a dream!

Self-Reflection:

"I turned negative situations into positives by putting all my focus and energy into music. I was always a deep thinker, an introverted person, to the point where music has an escape."

"It's so easy to give up into peer pressure, to listen too much to the male's opinion. I recieve letters from fans writing about certain abusive situations that they are in, and that's why I want to reach out."

"I think society has created its own image of what is the perfect girl --like there's a certain body that's the right thing for girls to look like. Somehow, young girls are brought up to believe that."

"I'm a really diffrent person aside from how I seem to be publicly. I'm very, very introverted"

"I tend to be a control freak, and I have to be a perfectionist. I think that's what drives me, because it gives me control over a situation. I hate feeling vulnerable to this day."

"This business has made me very cynical --I never know wether people are comming back to me because of my success. But I've learned to be a pretty good judge of character."

"After [the Grammy win], maybe I was thinking,'God, I wonder what those people who were trying to bring me down all along and never even believed in me enough to think that this moment would come, are thinking? Of course, it's in the back of your mind, saying, 'I proved myself.' I'm so happy that I proved this to myself."

"I'm a very spiritual person, and I have a very strong belief in God, and He's completely led me to this point."

Music

"I think what's going on in pop right now is very hook driven, and a lot of times I think It lacks real feelings and real emotions. And I wanted to make sure my first singe would convey that kind of soul."

"It's a dream come true that people are responding a positive way to my music. At first, I was afraid that some people might not complety get where I'm comming from-- particularly with 'Genie in a Bottle.'"

"A lot of people who see me on the surface-- or have only heard "Genie"-- want to categorize me as only pop. There's nothing wrong with pop, but it's so much more than that. I do covers of Etta James. I love the blues. There is R&B in my vocal style. It's a bit soulful."

"I want to make this next record to the next level. I don't want it to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist, and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run."