Z. Aguilera Quotes

Power is making a statement about who you are.

When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.

I love the old Hollywood glam look: platinum blonde hair, the perfect red lip. It's very Marilyn Monroe and shows a pure feminine beauty.

Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.

I still got the nasty in me.

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

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?

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I was never into the boy crazy thing because I was very focused on my career.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.

I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.

So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

The schedule is crazy - it's all suitcases and hotel rooms and you just go nonstop. It's a crazy lifestyle, it really is.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?

I love Tom Cruise. When Penelope Cruz is through with him, I'm next.

I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.

In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.

I have a lot of things to say and a lot of things to let out of me.

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

I felt caged by my childhood.

I'm not just another bimbo.

Let's get glam. It's all in the way you move. Let's get glam. Don't let the clothes wear you. Let's get glam. It's all an attitude.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

My fans do deserve to see me back out on the road.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

I never mind contorting myself for a good cause.

I have those days where I'm PMSing and bloated.

I want to look good when people see me.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

I don't want 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.

I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.

I feel things deeply.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I didn't want to do something that was easy for me.

I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.

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.

All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.

I really feel free and not as serious as I have been in the past.

I think you can really gauge my state of mind by listening to my albums.

I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.